I learned something about one of my Grandfather's cousins today

[Roon]

He cut off his trigger finger in the hopes that he wouldn't get drafted for WW2. Didn't work, they still took him.

[Skittles]

1. poor guy

:o

[LeftyMom]

2. Wow. You'd think that would either indicate mental instability or real opposition to the war?

A high school friend of my mother's got his draft papers. I guess he didn't want to go, because he went out in the garage and shot himself in the head. With a hunting rifle fired with his toes.

Seems to me that anybody that opposed should be able to get out of it and not just shifted to a non=combat role, because that's still helping to run the machinery of death. But he knew that as a boy from a modest neighborhood with no connections, no involvement in a traditional peace church, etc, he was about to embark on a taxpayer funded vacation to southeast asia, and apparently he really would rather die.