What is the draft really? The way I understand it, the United States government says that you must join the military and engage the national enemy, weather it be through infantry or office work. So how exactly do they decide who goes and who stays? Or in dire circumstances, who lives and who dies.

During the times of WWII and early Vietnam (I'm not clear on WWI), there was a set system that determined an individual's importance to society in comparison to everyone else. For instance; there are two twenty-year-old men, one in collage going on to be a teacher perhaps, and the other a high school dropout who works at a local factory. In the eyes of the system, the collage student serves a far more significant purpose than the dropout that will most likely make nothing of his life.

This system, however, was...