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    Ignorant Army: How the Draft Made a Nice Young Man Into a Leftist Radical
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    Ignorant Army: How the Draft Made a Nice Young Man Into a Leftist Radical

    By Jim Drevescraft

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    About this ebook

    This memoir is the true story of how a young man, while still
    technically deferred from the draft with a student
    deferment, was nonetheless drafted and entered the U.S.
    Army during the height of the Vietnam War.
    Although spared the Vietnam experience directly, he was
    himself nonetheless swept up in many of the same tensions
    and pressures of the war, even while stationed in the
    United States Army in Europe (USAREUR). Finding that the
    sheer incompetence and arbitrary nonsense inflicted by a
    largely indifferent leadership gradually drew him and his
    comrades into increasingly radical opposition to the
    authorities, he became a leader in the barracks,
    defending his friends to the extent he was given the
    nickname of "The General."
    Along the way, he became the disc jockey for a pirate
    radio station and helped prevent the first full-scale mutiny
    in the USAREUR, only to be later persecuted for his trouble.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Drevescraft Books
    Release dateJun 26, 2017
    ISBN9780998300511
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