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Isha Drew's avatar

Devastating. Made me think of my father who drove a bulldozer across Europe in World War 2 and would not get his Canadian uniform out of the trunk to march on this day, or go down to the Legion to reminisce with the boys. Ever. Or my two grandfathers who both served in the World War 1 . One took a shotgun out into the orchard and blew his head off when I was a baby; the other died of a drinking-related illness when I was five. Both left their mental health on Flanders fields.

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Kyle Young's avatar

Back then, at 18 I could serve as cannon fodder for the bankers and the MIC, but I couldn't vote.

But I got lucky, twice. Then later, not so lucky. First, I was lucky enough to come of age after the draft lottery came into effect. Second, I was lucky enough to have lottery numbers that kept me from being drafted the three years I was eligible.

My next older brother enlisted in the marines and came back a different person. Could have been all the vaccines he was required to take.

I just took one during that time, a flu shot that was mandatory my freshman year in college ('71). I got a bad case of pneumonia from it that lasted for months and left me wondering if I might have been better off serving as cannon fodder in Viet Nam for the MIC and the bankers.

And folks wonder why I'm antiwar and antivaxx.

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