How many people avoided the draft

Ken Burns' film recalls the accounts of more than witnesses to the war in what he calls a "degree narrative. It began airing on Sept. Military pay benefits are changing all the time -- make sure you're up to date with everything you've earned. Join Military. That time an entire battle stopped to watch two soldiers in a fistfight. Watch Gordon Ramsey live a day in the life of a Royal Marine.

WATM is made in Hollywood by veterans. It's military life presented like never before. Check it out at We Are the Mighty. He describes what life Twenty-nine of the forty-four men who have served as our nation's commander-in-chief have military backgrounds themselves Congress eventually amended the law to allow only those dependents conceived or acquired by marriage or adoption before Pearl Harbor to guarantee a deferment.

A pregnancy started before Dec. Efforts to avoid the draft during World War II extended to women, as well. Attempts to tighten dependency qualifications led to one of the uglier political battles of the war, with lawmakers and local draft board members vowing not to induct even one father. When the manpower requirements of total war forced the issue, lawmakers finally relented and allowed the drafting of husbands and fathers.

By mid, only 0. Similarly, men who managed to obtain deferments from the draft because their work in industry and agriculture supported the war effort held on to their jobs. Shipyard workers who were healthy enough to serve in the military rarely quit, while those whose health problems made them ineligible for service quit with impunity.

Across the country, young men, with help from their families, looked for ways to avoid sacrificing their time, money and bodies to the war. Kansas fathers bought land for their sons to farm.

Click the images to go to a gallery of Draft Resistance-Seattle photographs and documents. Demonstrators burning draft cards outside the Selective Service Office in Seattle, c. Copyright c Fred Lonidier. Courtesy of Fred Lonidier Collection.

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