text: If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program then you won't get drafted for the war. I was doing this program and while I was on one of my trips I turned eighteen. I was going to get drafted for the war, but the drafting board heard that I was going on these trips and decided that I was already doing enough for the country and didn't draft me. Another reason to join the program is that you get to see a lot of Europe. I got to see the Acropolis in Greece, I took a Gandala ride in Venice, Italy, an excavated castle in Crete, the Panama Canal, and China. After you deliver the animals, then you get to have a lot more freedom and fun then when they are onboard the ship. There is a lot of open space where the animals were so you can play tabletennis, baseball, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and a lot of other fun games.