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Needless to say, I (and my boys) would avoid the draft if at all possible. True, America has been very good to us, but we (the white collar crowd) can serve our host country better if we do the things we do best, (like office work) and leave the shooting and killing to the beefy amercians who excel at things like that.
Of course, if drafted, I would hope that we would be placed in situations where our office / critical thinking talents would be best utilized.
Should the absolute worst case senario happen, and I / we find ourselves on the front line, I would hope that we could serve with distintion. If push came to shove, and America found itself at war with a hostile country, I / we would do our best to give back to the USA, which has been (thus far) very kind to us. As far as yiddishkeit on the front lines? Not so sure if that would survive the war.
But ask a better question (one that has come up in my office before):
Were the USA to find itself face to face with Israel, what would us flag wavers do then? Or better yet, what would the folks protesting on 2nd avenue do then?
I know my answer (even though my Ivrit is for the birds). Wonder what the guys in the long black coats would do.