Narrative Essay: Welcome To The Draft

“Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous.” Rainsford is an experienced hunter who fell off a yacht, and swam to a nearby Ship Trap Island. Once he got on the island, he found shelter with a deadly General Zaroff. Great fear was then sparked in Rainsford when Zaroff forced him to be hunted in a three-day long game. Thus, Rainsford will most likely never hunt again after suffering through the damaging trauma of the game.

The 1971 draft was being televised tonight. I became anxious as the time of the draft came closer. On November 5, 1968, our current president Richard Nixon was elected into office. He had promised that he would get America out of the war but within the time he has been in office he sparked it even further. The military is in need of more support to defeat our enemy so the United States decided to have a draft. I wished I could get out of this draft because I could’t even vote to make sure I wasn’t sent off to another country. Many of my friends were trying to avoid the draft but I am stuck due to not having enough money to go to college. Back in April of this year there was a protest at Kent State where 67 shots were fired and 4 people died.

Reporter: I am here with a one particular young woman that has sparked interest in my eyes for many months. She works as a news writer for the New York Daily Tribune, that’s how I was able to find out about her story. Her story was so fascinating I have decided to call her in so she can share it with you all. Her name is Abigail Pilot.

Tim O’Brien desperately wanted to dodge the draft. Tim had a “moral split. [He] couldn’t make up his mind. [He] feared the war, yes, but [he] also feared exile” (O’Brien 42). Tim had no idea what to do.

As Morgen walks into her AP American History class, she notices that there are weird box type tablets on every desk. She’s never seen anything like these before. By the looks on the faces of her ten classmates, she’s not alone. She takes her usual seat in the back of the classroom. While waiting for her best friend to arrive, she listens to her favorite song, Hello by her favorite classic artist, Adele. What are these weird looking tablets? How are you supposed to turn them on? She wondered.

Born on May 9th, 1950. Bonnie’s father, Joseph, served in World War II, so when the Vietnam Conflict started, her family was used to the effects of war. Being in high school during the “heyday” of the draft, Bonnie recalls the friends who avoided the draft by any means necessary, “There were so many people who got married right out of high school to avoid [the draft]...when I first started working, my friends were having their first kids.” Bonnie herself was engaged after high school, to Ronnie, her high school sweetheart, who had been drafted. They, like the other high school couples, attempted to be exempt from the draft by being married and having children, two of the ways to not be eligible for the draft. This engagement did not last, however, with Bonnie believing that “the only way to have fun was to go out on the weekends.” Her partying ways of her twenty’s had ended by the time she married Tom, but Tom continues to attest to the rumour that she has a box of engagement rings buried in their backyard. Another person in Bonnie’s family, her brother Steve, was exempt from the draft because of an abscess on his tailbone. Steve had not known about the abscess, and had married his girlfriend at eightteen, only to be divorce in the following years. Living in Missouri at the time of the war, Bonnie’s main fears were of

Kearns first talks about how people, even well paid and respected baseball players, could not avoid the draft. Providing the information to the reader, she pens, “Then in 1952, at the height of his powers, the twenty-six year old Newcombe was drafted into the army.” (Page 163) She then goes on to talk about how the whole game of baseball and the people around her were affected by the war. During the pandemonium that was forced by the arms race, love for the country was at an all time high. Taking on the concept of patriotism, Doris scribes, “I only knew that I was an American.

turning my head again I saw Simon dive to my aid. He did not utter a

My interviewee is Frank Ruelas, he is currently 62, and he works at the US Postal. He’s a family friend and basically my step-dad. He has many siblings so growing up his house was always full. He was born in 1954 about 7 years after it began. He grew up and lived in Fort Worth, TX, during it.

In 1967, America’s draft was the talk of the nation. Many men were terrified to be drafted due to the ongoing war which began in November 1955 to April 1975. The Vietnam War was the longest and costliest war in history. America was in need of millions of soldiers because we were at a standstill. Rubin Evans was one of the few soldiers that was able to crawl out alive. Off course he loved his country but he was leaving his family behind to fight for a cause that didn’t understand. The feeling of nervousness and scared overwhelmed his body as he boarded the plane to his first destination, Hawaii.

The fact that samuel is probably a teenager represents the way young people were drafted during the Vietnam war. “ Their mothers all knew that they had gone to see the misselle exhibit on the Fourteenth street. ” (Paley)

Being born in Houston, Texas is a privilege in itself learning what gifts I have been given from being an american and how to use them. As Abraham Lincoln once said ¨My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.¨ I completely agree it shows how our generation can make a change in America as well as what gifts we have received.

Smoke and fire is all I can see. The hot air is thick with dust that burns your eyes, creating a stinging sensation that won’t go away no matter how much I rub them. Gunshots from both sides resonate even over the flat terrain. Mud is splattered all over my face, and I’m so thirsty. This is war, I tell myself. You shoot, you live. This is what I tell myself everyday. I woke up this morning on a steel bunk expecting more training, but instead got called out to the front lines of battle. You’re a soldier, you’re strong, you don’t back down, you show no fear. Every day, over and over, a million times, out on the battlefield, this is what I tell myself, because all I want, is to survive. I don’t want to kill anyone. I don’t want to be responsible for taking someone away from

I was taken aback. My mouth was gaped open, closing and opening like a fish. After standing there, rooted in my spot for what seemed like eternity, I sputtered out “Really?” in a very manly way. They just nodded in response with matching grins. I couldn’t tell if they were a Cheshire cat kind of grin, or a sincere kind of grin that makes your stomach flip with joy, but I was sailing over the moon when they handed the draft back to

Several months, I have been tossing the idea about joining the Navy. My family was aware about Navy was possibility option. Recently, I have contacted a Navy Recruiter, and I have not told my family about me talking to a recruiter. My family is important aspect of my life, so the conversation needs to happen sooner than later. When I bring up the Navy conversation, my intention would ease my family in acceptance of their daughter leaving the state. Joining the Navy would impact me and my family, and the impact on my family would tribute to the difficult conversation. In following joining the Navy would impact me and my family, and the impact on my family would tribute to the difficult conversation. Underlie feeling have huge impact on person’s attributions and judgement. A difficult conversation affects the identity of a person. Therefore, intention by the conversation was important.