 WWI: Selective Service Act of 1917  FDR’s Selective Training and Service Act (first peacetime draft)  December 1, 1969: Vietnam draft: 365 capsules.

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 WWI: Selective Service Act of 1917  FDR’s Selective Training and Service Act (first peacetime draft)  December 1, 1969: Vietnam draft: 365 capsules

 Conscientious Objector (religious or moral)  Medical Problem (shoot toes or deliberately fail color blind tests)  Join the National Guard  College or Education  Fled to Canada  Burning of draft cards  Draft card “turn-ins”

 Why, ultimately, does he go to war? Are there other reasons for going he doesn’t list?  What does this story say about what kind of soldier Tim O’Brien might become? What does it say about all soldiers in Vietnam?  Is Tim O’Brien a coward?

 Nonfiction vs. Fiction Are the stories that Tim O’Brien tells true or untrue?  Close Reading: Mitchell Sander’s Story (page 68 to 72) Can this story have any truth to it?