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The act of illegally avoiding military service, including fleeing the country or failing to register for the draft.
The supplied reporting shows that many high-profile 1960s–70s musicians used their platform to protest the draft and the Vietnam War—artists such as Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, Phil ...
did not serve in the draft: public records and contemporary reporting show he received four educational deferments and a later medical deferment for bone spurs that kept him out of service . Critics l...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced the old "oldest-man-first" conscription rule with a randomized, birth‑date lottery that determined the order of call for men born between January 1, 1944 and December 3...