As a worship associate in my church, I periodically help produce services, assisting the presiding minister by doing readings and planning various other activities that help shape what takes place in the sanctuary every Sunday. In our congregation, it also involves presenting a personal reflection that is tied to the topic of the service.
At yesterday’s Veteran’s Day service, I reflected on my own experience of grappling with the Selective Service System draft as I came of age in the late 1960s, just in time for the Vietnam era. After I got home, I sent the text to my longtime friend (40 years and counting) Kevin Feldman (nickname “Gar”) with a brief note that said:
Hey Gar,
Does any of this overlap with your experience, or did you 2S all the way and then lottery out of the draft?
Seeya,
A
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What Kevin wrote me back struck me as such a stirring perspective on the times—different and in many ways fa...
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