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Gays and would-be conscientious objectors should plan early for a draft, says Judith E. Schwartz, a counselor with the Cambridge-based Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft. Most important is collecting background information that can be used in a hearing, like letters from friends or family, she says...
...event of a draft," Schwartz says, "they need to get a hold of Form 9 at the post office. On that form they can claim to be reclassified as a conscientious objector or as someone with a disabling mental or physical condition...
Thought of the draft, for this generation of young men, immediately evokes images of resisters of the Vietnam War era: protestors sticking flowers in the gun barrels of soldiers guarding the Pentagon, students sitting-in, teachers teaching-in and John Lennon and Yoko Ono sleeping-in, staying in bed to protest...
...there were those who fled to Canada. But crossing the border to escape the draft is a less appealing option due to tighter immigration rules, a spokesperson for the Canadian Embassy said...
Most experts point to big differences between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and say that draft worries are premature...