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He may of relented to public pressure , but the fact is...he is the one who started the draw down. Another may have followed the military's advice and doubled down on failure. Nixon did not.

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I put it more on the kids of the sixties and seventies preferring their lives to their "country". I'm not old enough to have experienced the public reaction to the draft at the time of the "korean conflict". Were people more accepting of this idea of patriotism meaning being ready to lose one's life to defend the interest of psychopathic arms producers and oil producers and patent medicine producers?

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