In the approximately three and a half years that the United Statesicon was involved combatively in WWII about 70,000 men applied for conscientious objector status. Almost certainly many more than that actually fled the country or maneuvered themselves into positions of safety. In the three year Korean conflict there were allegedly around 80,000 cases of draft evasion. In the ten years we were seriously involved in Vietnam an estimated 125,000 people fled to Canadaicon to avoid the draft. Percentage wise not a remarkable difference in numbers. I think people are people regardless of the time period, at least that is what the numbers seem to indicate. History from every country, in every conflict and in every age shows similar results. Another seemingly common human trait is the denigrating of more current generations and deifying the older ones. By the by, I avoided the draft in 1967 by joining the Army. Tom