"Draft Morning" by The Byrds. 1968

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

2. I remember The Lottery in early 1970s....Seniors in High Schools watching

I vividly remember the high school seniors in the school library
ALL watching that tiny television set of the school.

Watching the dates being drawn.

Draft lottery.

AND I remember the school corridor bulletin board,
Behind the glass….the lists…

The list of former students that had been killed in Vietnam.
The list of those former students missing in Vietnam.

The seniors talking openly about heading to Canada.

A war for nothing.
A war that made military industrial complex money.
Millions and millions and millions while American boys died for nothing.

My buddy was older than I by about 8 or 9 years….
As my Vietnam war veteran buddy,,,, screamed out when he was drunk
again, drunk and screaming “ FUCK LBJ! FUCK NIXON!….FUCK EM ALL THOSE GOD DAMN BASTARDS. FUCKING ASSHOLE SON F A BITCHES……}

My buddy lost his twin brother in Vietnam.
My buddy never talked about his time in Vietnam. Maybe 2x in decades did he say anything about his Vietnam time.
His wife would tell of his horrible horrific nightmares for years.

101st Airborne grunt,
Similar horror as Tiger Force atrocities