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Ferrets are Cool

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4. I was a 17 year old boy when it ended.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2022, 09:03 AM

Dec 2022

You can't imagine how much relief there was at that time. We were still in the midst of watching the atrocity of Vietnam on the news every night (thank you Walter Cronkite). I did NOT want to get drafted into that quagmire.

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