The subject of Draft Dogging, something I’ve thought about, when I was younger, my lot numbers were ready to be pulled, however still in school the war ended. With no idea fully or clear objective as I understood at that time. I find it difficult to rap my mind around, if you know the reason for a conflict and if it’s of national interest support for your Country or a World conflict, then maybe I would have been mentally ready and committed. I had none of those. I’ve heard others say, if you went you were just cannon fodder, in the end you die valiantly for a cause that didn’t actually provide gain for their country or ours. It was started by France, ended by China.On an allied note, the subject of 'draft dodgers'
I have mixed feelings but tend to come down on the side them losing citizenship for their chosen 'desertion'.
After we left Millions of people still lost their lives it was horrible, for that I’m still baffled. Pol Pot will ever be burn in my memories. Hitler provided a political agenda or model for him to follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide
kvThe massacres ended when the Vietnamese military invaded in 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime. By January 1979, 1.5 to 2 million people had died due to the Khmer Rouge's policies, including 200,000–300,000 Chinese Cambodians, 90,000 Muslims, and 20,000 Vietnamese Cambodians.[18][19] 20,000 people passed through the Security Prison 21, one of the 196 prisons the Khmer Rouge operated,[3][20] and only seven adults survived.[21] The prisoners were taken to the Killing Fields, where they were executed (often with pickaxes, to save bullets)[22] and buried in mass graves. Abduction and indoctrination of children was widespread, and many were persuaded or forced to commit atrocities.