Government
Jan. 30, 2007
Caskets at Airport Bring Home Reality of War
FORUM COLUMN - By Eliot G. Disner - The Iraq war was just an abstraction to a Los Angeles trial lawyer until he saw flag-stenciled caskets coming out of the cargo hold of an airplane in Detroit. That changed everything.
By Eliot G. Disner
336. That was my number. Because of the perceived unfairness of the military's conscription efforts during the Vietnam War, the government hit on the idea of the draft lottery. The first lottery was held in the fall of 1969. Through my birth date, the high number I drew effectively made Vietnam not my war. Well, not quite my war.
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