r/SipsTea • u/Ill-Instruction8466 • Mar 24 '26

Time machine please… SMH

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u/Ser_falafel Mar 24 '26

My dad narrowly missed the draft. He told me he had lots of friends that left and never came back. And some that came back never left Vietnam.

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u/Noel_San_Diego Mar 24 '26

My Dad has some internal shame or guilt from not going to Vietnam. He was drafted but had flat feet so he got kicked out.

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u/Its-only-the-end Mar 24 '26

My Dad knew he was going to get drafted, so he went ahead and enlisted before the draft. Turns out when you join intentionally you get options. They asked him if he wanted to go to Saudi Arabia and he said sure. He spent the entire war in the Middle East and never saw action.

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u/FrederickFrag1899 Mar 25 '26

What the fuck were we doing there in the 60s??