draft

     

Draft or raught may mean:

Trivia about draft

  • Dec. 1, 1969: the Selective Service conducts the first lottery for this since World War II
  • You're in the Army now--in 1940 FDR instituted the first peacetime one of these in U.S. history
  • Baby doc Benjamin Spock was indicted in 1968 for telling teens to resist this
  • "Why Me?" Dept.:In 1973 apprentice plumber Dwight Stone became the last man to enter the U.S. Army this way
  • A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "f"
  • On Dec. 1, 1969 the first of these random drawings since 1942 took place
  • Anger about the first one of these established by federal law spurred riots in July 1863
  • The state militia system isn't cutting it, so I had to sign a bill authorizing this, also called conscription

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