I was bragging to my colleague that I dodged the Military draft durin vietnam...

[Proud Draft Dodger]

...in 1968, she told me not to tell? She said, I wouldn't go around telling people that if i were you.
Why would she say this?

I am proud not to be a murderer or a state-paid assassin, aka hit man.
I am proud i did not kill millions of people based on there vietnamese race. I am proud not to be racist. How can anybody have a problem with peace, love, and refusing to kill people, refusing to kill people just because somebody in DC said so, or killing people just because of a different race. I did not want to be used as pawn in a corrupt system. I am not a sucker and i knew the war was for the money.

40 years later, i still dont understand, why they think i was wrong.
I could not be more proud to have dodged it.

I told her i simply hid in the u.s.a. , never went to canada, and never got caught, stayed in hotels, on farms, in big cities, all over. got a fake id, lived with aunts, cousins houses.

Plus, I work as a middle school teacher, where they cant criticize me, they wont tolerate any critism for my decission, and have a strict policy, so that is why i dont understand why she would tell me not to go around with pride of my resister of war, when nobody can do anything anyways.

 

[Katie W]

If you're a teacher, I weep for the children.

You have poor logic (killing people based on race? what about all the Vietnamese who were eager for us to be there and terribly hurt by our departure? You thought we slaughtered them too?), dubious ethics (you brag about ducking risk to yourself, instead of having chosen to stand up and try to fix what you claim was the problem) and terrible writing skills.

From what I know, yes, we shouldn't have gotten involved there. What you did wasn't anything to brag about, though.

 

[tweekduece]

The answers you got previous to mine are maybe the best reasons to keep it to yourself. You'll have all sorts of people with nothing productive to say at all gunning to be the first in line to insult you for it. I understand all that patriotic bs and all, but i suppose nobody thinks of the people in the military that get used as fodder while they're being manipulated by the whole 'brave soul for your country' speech who don't get to see their families again because of it. I am proud of those who defend us, but angered by the casual tossing away of their lives in some cases by powers greater than them in their own country. Anyway, going around telling people that, isn't the proudest thing you can say, I reckon.