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by rswail
1467 days ago
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We didn't have conscription in WW1, but we did in WW2 and then "National Service" in the 50s. In the 60s there was a draft that had a "ball draw" every month with the date (a ball numbered from 1-28/30/31) and if you turned 18 on that date of the month, you were drafted. There were exemptions but it still seems a cruel form of gambling in a way. |
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There was a military draft in WW I:
>...By the end of World War I, some two million men volunteered for various branches of the armed services, and some 2.8 million had been drafted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917