Ok, how about grabbing immigrants as they got off the boat, forced them into service and sent them south to fight in the civil war?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:18 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Thoughts on national service > > > > Nope conscription only existed since 1948 to the 70's in the US. > > Before then it was not the norm, only used in times of national > > crisis, like the Civil War or WWI. > > > > > > FDR signed the STSA in 1940 the first peacetime "draft" in > US histroy. > > > > That's how my grandfather managed to become a tanker > training on M-3 > > Lee's at Camp Hood, Texas. He didn't very much enjoy the > change from > > being a loan officer at a bank in San Francisco California, > especially > > given that there was not a war on at the time (at least, > not for the > > US)... > > > > There had been a Selective Service Committee in operation since the > > mid-1920s. > > > > There was conscription during WW1 and the Civil War. > > I believed I mentioned that. but did not know about the > committees in the 20's. Besides registering and actually > having conscription are different things. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279612 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
