I still have my selective service card. It is in my wallet right now. Stragnely, it really means something to me. I never went to military service (or seriously considered it). However, that card is important to me. In a small way, it tells me that, if my country needed my help, I wasn’t afraid to tell them where to call me. It’s like always having a friend. You probably have a friend who could call you any time and ask for help and you’ll drop anything and everything to rush to aid.
I turn 36 years old in 2003, so I am well past eligible for the draft. However, I will keep that card forever. My country asked to do one little thing for it without getting anything in return, and I willingly did it. That’s important. Maybe when you younguns get older, you’ll understand.
Your point is well taken Steve MB. I just didn’t (and don’t) think that registering is such a bad thing. If push comes to shove, so to speak, there are times to protest later. I’m certainly no advocate of spending the nation’s greatest treasure on half-baked war-mongering of the kind we’ve seen lately. However, if the nation were truly threatened, I would want to know who we can call upon for help.
An aside – My current worry is that the current course of our nation is to create a threat which cannot be ignored. Iraq poses no serious threat to us now, but as we push them, they will have to lash out. Then what are we going to do?