Monday PM A Supreme Court case challenging the requirement for men, but not women, to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft is forcing Congress to make a choice it has been avoiding for decades: End draft registration, or expand it to young women as well as young men.
The choice is not between continuing male-only draft registration (which is likely to be found unconstitutional) and expanding registration to women. The real choice is whether to expand registration to women or to end it entirely. Bills for each of those options were introduced in the last session of Congress, and are likely to be reintroduced within the next few months as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act.
BLUEWATER BAY The day his ice cream truck wrecked on an Alabama highway rolling five times after running into a washout and hitting another car was, believe it or not, just the next-to-last straw for Ramon Pulliam.
The last straw came shortly after, when he and a friend thought they were close to getting jobs at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Alabama. Both were told, in fact, that they would be hired, except for one thing both were classified 1A by the Selective Service System, meaning they were available for military service.
Should they be drafted, Pulliam and his buddy were told, their jobs would have to be held open for three years, a gamble the plant wasn t willing to take. It was 1960, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam, under terms of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization agreement signed six years earlier, was ramping up.
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Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement March 17, 2021 1:15 PM CDT By Eric A. Gordon
A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
The Boys Who Said No!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War is featured in the Socially Relevant Film Festival online and is available for free viewing now but only until March 21 at 8:59 p.m. (I assume that’s in whatever time zone you’re in, but to be on the safe side, I advise you not to wait that long!)