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connection with the preceding articles.—Ed.] The following communication addressed to a gentleman in Baltimore, makes a very interesting contribution to the political history of the Civil War to the effect that General McClellan in 1862 sought an interview with General Lee with the supposed purpose of making peace over the heads of the governments at Washington and Richmond: Bishop's house, 222 east Harris street, Savannah, Ga., January 3, 1904. My dear friend,—Your letter of the 1st instant to hand. My recollection of the conversation to which you refer is clear. General Longstreet told me more than once that immediately after the battle at Sharpsburg, or Antietam, while he was in General Lee's tent, the General handed him a letter which he had just received from General McClellan, the commander of the Federal armies. General Lee gave General Longstreet a copy of the letter and asked him to give it his serious attention, and on the following morning advise him (General
gadier-General Alfred Iverson, upon whose staff he was now serving, says in his report of that battle: My thanks are due Captain D. P. Halsey, Assistant Adjutanteral, for his promptness and readiness in carrying my orders to any part of the field. (War Records, Vol. XXV, Part I, p. 987.) Perhaps the most conspicuous services rendered by Captain Halsey during the war were those at the battle of Gettysburg, that great decisive conflict of the war, where so many won immortal fame. On the first day of the battle, when the 2d and 3d Army Corps, under Generals Ewell and A. P. Hill, so splendidly attacked and routed the enemy, Iverson's Brigade, with which he was still serving, while taking part in the attack of Rodes' Division, had become demoralized and was in danger of being driven back, when it was rallied and led forward by Captain Halsey, in what must have been a most effective and brilliant charge. The accounts in the official reports, slightly differing as to the details, cle
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mander, General Fighting Joe Hooker having succeeded Burnside. Ah! who of the Crenshaw Battery does not remember Chancellorsville? Who can forget the incessant fighting of the 1st, 2d, and 3d of May, when we struck the enemy first in front, and then in rear, in the race down the plank road behind Rodes' Division after the Flying Dutchmen, of Howard's Eleventh Corps, when Jackson made his celebrated flank movement. (Howard's Corps was composed of Germans.) They were easy marks. But on the 3d, when we had to cut a road through the woods to prevent annihilation before we could get in position, it was not so easy, and as far as the eye could reach when we debouched from the road there was nothing to be seen but lines of battle. The Crenshaw Battery went into position near the centre of the battalion, and soon one of the hottest artillery fights of the war was on, while infantry engaged infantry on either side. After several hours' fighting our artillery actually drove the enemy fr
e at a certain hour, and over specified roads. From some unexplained cause the First Corps did not cover the distance expected, and therefore did not meet General Johnston's expectations. Moreover, it rained very heavily during the night of the 3d, and Bragg's Corps could not advance beyond Monterey on the second day, which was the 4th of April, whereas Generals Johnston and Beauregard confidently expected that by the night of the 4th the whole army would bivouac near enough to the enemy to confidence. Success, therefore, as we have stated, depended on taking the Federals unawares, before they could fortify their position. It is proper to state again (in some extenuation) that it began to rain very heavily during the night of the 3d, which softened the roads and retarded the movement of the troops. It would seem, however, that the corps commanders, aware of the importance of surprising the enemy, would have used greater efforts to impel the men along. Will anyone believe th
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mn, consisting of the 9th Tennessee Cavalry, Colonel Brownlow; 10th Michigan Cavalry, Major Newell; Patterson's battery of six guns; Colonel John K. Miller, 13th Tennessee Cavalry; General Gillem, staff and escort, started at 12 o'clock, midnight. The night was pitch dark; one of the most fearful thunder storms I ever witnessed prevailed for several hours, and had it not been for the constant flashes of lightning we could not have continued our march. About 5:30 o'clock on the morning of the 4th, we came upon the pickets, and the action commenced about 6. Colonels Vaughan and Giltner, of Morgan's force, who commanded in front, were completely surprised, and retreated at once. Colonel Ingerton, having been successful in getting to the rear of the enemy, was awaiting developments in his front, when a negro boy rode up and told him that Morgan and staff were asleep at Mrs. Williams' house in Greenville. Ingerton directed Captain Wilcox, of his regiment, to take two companies and captu
plated move on Lee's part, forced the crippled army to retreat towards Lynchburg, where it was surrounded on all sides and compelled to capitulate. This surrender of Lee's army on April the 9th made the fall of the civil branch of the Confederate government inevitable. Hopeful and confident. Until the news of Lee's surrender reached him, President Davis was very hopeful and confident of the ultimate triumph of the Confederacy. In fact, the tone of the proclamation issued by him on the 5th, soon after his arrival in Danville, is, as he admits, viewed by the light of subsequent events, it may be fairly said, was over-sanguine. The following is a copy of the proclamation referred to: The General-in-Chief found it necessary to make such movements of his troops as to uncover the capital. It would be unwise to conceal the moral and material injury to our cause resulting from its occupation by the enemy. It is equally unwise and unworthy of us to allow our energies to falter,
skirmish line now overtook the command, reporting that they had succeeded in drawing off without molestation or apparent notice. The division remained halted for about two hours at this point. A dense black volume of smoke was observed to rise and hang like a huge pall over the country in the direction of Richmond, some twelve miles distant, and several officers who now joined us, among them Lieutenant Robert Goldsborough, aid-de-camp to General Custis Lee, and afterwards killed on the 6th, gave us an account of the sad circumstances attending the final abandonment of the city. Marching slowly on, and with frequent vexatious halts, caused by the road being blocked in front, we reached the——House said to have been, before the war, a well-known resort for fast teams and men from Richmond, which was exactly fifteen miles distant by an excellent straight road. Here the Major-General and staff managed to get a bread and meat dinner, or supper, which being almost the only mouth
ed their infantry there in four or five lines of battle outflanking the works and charged up the line, and finally captured the three guns, although the men behind them fought until the infantry were about to bayonet them. The lines then broke everywhere, but we got off with the three remaining guns of the Crenshaw Battery. Then commenced the last act in the tragedy of four years—the retreat to Appomattox. Sleepless nights and days of hunger and fighting from the 3d to the evening of the 8th, when we unlimbered our guns for the last time, and repulsed the enemy's attack, supported only by a few artillerymen with muskets—the Otey Battery—when night came on. The next day we cut down our guns, and sorrowfully wended our way homeward. The curtain fell. That was the end. Incidental. Captain Crenshaw was ever mindful of the welfare of his old command, and one of his first acts after going to Europe for the government was to send a full uniform and a pair of boots to each member<
tury later, when we all exult in a unified American history, and wear one common chaplet for bravery and heroism? Are we not brothers? It seems to me that there should be few dissenting voices to the courteous proposal embodied in the bill before the Virginia Senate. The precedent which I instance should have tremendous weight in procuring a decision favorable to placing the Lee memorial in the Capitol hall of Statuary. To like effect are the words of President Roosevelt, uttered on the 9th of last April, the anniversary of Lee's surrender, at the Charleston Exposition, where he said: We are now a united people; the wounds left by the great Civil War incomparably the greatest war of modern times, have healed, and its memories are now priceless heritages of honor, alike to the North and to the South. The devotion, the self-sacrifice, the steadfast resolution and lofty daring, the high devotion to the right as each man saw it, whether Northerner or Southerner, all these qualities
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f May, 1864, the battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse was fought, followed by bloody battles again on the 11th and 18th. In all the desperate fighting in Spotsylvania the Crenshaw Battery was always in the forefront, and always acquitted itself nobly. It did the same thing again at Jericho Ford, on the North Anna, on the 23d of May, and on down at Turkey Ridge on the 9th of June, on the route to Petersburg, around which city, at Battery No. 40, on the 22d of July, Archer's Farm on the 12th, 13th, 18th, and 19th of August, Davis House 21st of August, Jones House 30th of September, Squirrel Level Road 1st of October, Pegram (or Dabney) House 2d of October, Burgess' Mill 27th of October, Jarratt's Depot 10th of December, Crow House 6th of February, 1865, Hatcher's Run 7th February, Five Forks April 1st, Appomattox April 8th. Although but brief mention is made of these sixteen or seventeen battles around Petersburg, they were regular pitched battles, in which large numbers of tr


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Pierrot és una màscara-personatge de la Commedia dell'arte, nascuda a Itàlia cap a finals del . El nom de Pierrot és un gal·licisme que deriva del personatge italià de la Commedia dell'arte, Pedrolino, un dels primers zanni. Va ser interpretat per Giovanni Pellesini, actor de la companyia Gelosi.

El personatge va arribar a França on va passar a formar part del repertori de les companyies franceses amb el nom de Pierrot, gràcies a l'aportació de Giuseppe Geratoni que va ser el primer a introduir-lo, el 1673. Amb tot, el primer gran Pierrot va ser encara un italià, Fabio Antonio Sticotti (1676-1741). El personatge va ser perfeccionat pel seu fill Antonio-Jean Sticotti (1715?-1772), que el va exportar a Alemanya.

Els Sticotti van reinventar i donar nova vida a aquest personatge adaptant-lo al gust dels francesos i després del públic de les corts europees. De fet, la versió francesa de Pierrot va perdre les característiques d'astúcia i ironia pròpies dels zanni per esdevenir un mim trist, enamorat de la lluna.

El mim Jean-Gaspard Debureau (1796-1846) va representar el Pierrot vuitcentista al Theâtre des Funanbules. La vida de Debureau va inspirar el personatge de Gaspard de la pel·lícula Les enfants du Paradise del director de cinema francès Marcel Carné.

Debureau va establir les característiques que, en endavant, definirien la iconografia del Pierrot: un vestit blanc i ample, amb botons negres i un petit barret negre sobre la cara pintada de blanc.

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"And when it came my time to serve
I knew 'Better Dead than Red'
But when I got to my ol' draft board, buddy
This is what I said:
Sarge, I'm only 18
I got a ruptured spleen
And I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat
And my feet are flat
And my asthma's getting worse!"
— Phil Ochs, "Draft Dodger Rag"
It's about this: A character (Always Male for obvious reasons) doesn't want to be conscripted by the armed forces. He may have different reasons, and find different ways to do it, which may or may not work. The type of hero that usually gets put in this kind of situation is often an average worker, or even outright poor, as a person from the higher classes of society usually have relatively easy methods to exempt themselves from serving (or if they can't, use said methods to get themselves a cushy position away from the frontlines) while avoiding the negative repercussions in the process.
He simply is not willing to risk his life for his country
He does not want to fight
He objects for ideological reasons
Possible ways to dodge:
Claim you're too sick. Maybe all you need for this option is a note from your doctor; but you may also go through some pain, which can go as far as self-mutilation.
Claim you have a mental or physical disability.
Act like/openly claim you're gay. This may have other repercussions, though. (This mainly applied to the US before and during the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era, when openly gay citizens were barred from military service. The repeal of that policy in favor of accepting the openly gay to serve has closed off this escape route, making it a Dead Horse Trope outside of period works.)
Pretend to be crazy.
Commit a lesser crime.
Flee to another country. For Americans, this often meant Canada; for West Germany, there was the option of West Berlin, since men living there were exempted from the draft for complicated legal reasons.note Berlin was considered occupied territory after World War II and was administered by the Allied Powers (the U.S., the USSR, the United Kingdom and France). As such, West German law did not fully apply to West Berlin.
Earlier forms of military conscriptions, e. g. that in France during the Revolutionary and The Napoleonic Wars and that in the US during the The American Civil War, offered a legal way to avoid the draft that no longer exists: hire a substitute to serve in your place. Of course only the more affluent could take advantage of that option, especially when a war wore on and the casualty rates rose, causing the fees men asked to serve as substitutes to rise considerably.
Declare yourself a "conscientious objector" and convince a military tribunal that you're objecting for ideological reasons (easier for members of certain religions, such as Quakers). There is a very chequered history of countries (a) allowing you the right to do this (although it's in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and (b) actually abiding by it if they do. Some objectors agree to serve as The Medic, as stretcher-bearers, or in other non-combatant roles. Others are delegated for non-military work that can be every bit as dangerous as combat - fighting forest fires, disaster or marine rescue services, tending quarantined patients in contagious-disease wards - but doesn't force them to hurt anyone.
Volunteer to fight for armed forces of another country. For some people, the objection is not so much objection to fighting as much as fighting for a particular country. Many people avoided draft in the country that they were citizens of and went to war as soldiers for another country. A particularly glaring example is a certain Austro-Hungarian citizen named Adolf Hitler who avoided draft into his own country's army by volunteering for the German Army during World War I. He did so as a matter of principle as a German (broadly defined) nationalist.
Get a job that makes you more valuable to the war effort as a worker than as a soldier.
Get rejected either due to seemingly be (or actually being) unfit for service. As some of the examples below show, some people deliberately let themselves become The Pig-Pen when they presented themselves to the draft board, leaving the board thinking they weren't physically capable of serving. In other cases, the draftee either voluntarily enlisted or reported to the draft board, only to be rejected due to physical problems. Even just being overweight can make someone unfit for service.
An alternative for Draft Dodging is getting smart. That means volunteering in a unit with little to do with actual military, such as National Guard, Coast Guard, or Border Guard, or pulling the strings and/or gaming the system by getting yourself in a non-fighting position, such as company clerk, vehicle mechanic or drill instructor. Of course, even this isn't foolproof, as in the US, the Coast Guard and National Guard can both be (and especially in recent years, often are) mobilized to the front lines, and even Soldiers at the Rear might find themselves on the front due to the needs of the service or surprise enemy attacks.
This is a trope that may become a Dead Horse Trope in the next few decades, as more and more western states abolish conscription. There is still draft registration in the United States, but it is so politically unacceptable that the laws regarding registration are not enforced. note The "Selective Service" system requires all eligible males between the ages of 18-25 to register for the draft. Failure to do so is punishable, but few, if any, are ever punished. Resident aliens, on the other hand, must register or face deportation, and this is enforced. Additionally, draft registration is mandatory to receive federal student aid or to apply for a government job. There's also the argument that the US military prefers an all-volunteer army, as the quality of troops tends to be much higher when the troops want to be there. Whether American conscription is ever revived is debatable. The US has proven it can fight protracted wars without conscription, but the full impact of this has yet to be seen and a future war with higher casualties may force the draft to be revived. This is also something of a required trope for the "chickenhawk" variant of Miles Gloriosus: the War Hawk who claims the nation's military is their greatest pride, while quietly shoving a heavily doctored medical report under the table.
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Sickness option
Mentioned in Maus. The grandfather of the artist had 16 of his teeth pulled so he wouldn't have to join the army; the artist's father (the protagonist) would willingly ruin his health with a salted herring-only diet and no sleep and coffee during the last three days before the test. (It was the grandfather who insisted that he'd do this. But the artist's father found doing it was so terrible, he preferred to be drafted the second time around.)
Averted by Will Eisner's father in his autobiographical graphic novel To the Heart of the Storm. He opts not to have his eye put out (by a doctor!) to avoid service in World War I, instead he emigrates to America.
Au revoir les enfants: Joseph points out how Moreau, the exercise instructor and dorm monitor, is making himself scarce when the authorities show up looking for draft dodgers, although it's later suggested that he may be a Resistance fighter or a Jewish refugee in addition to or instead of being a draft dodger.
In Tigerland two soldiers about to depart to Vietnam contemplate jumping from a roof to injure themselves and avoid deployment. At the end of the film a soldier deliberately injures another soldier's eye so that he will be discharged.
In M*A*S*H, the main characters try to help a local boy avoid the draft. They make him take amphetamines to speed up his heartbeat and fake a heart condition. The doctor sees through this and keeps him for further examination, which reveals the fraud.
In the Laurel and Hardy movie Great Guns, the eponymous duo were servants to a rich family. When a man from said family was drafted, the family (not the draftee himself) tried this.
In a Finnish military farce movie Vääpeli Körmy (Sergeant Major Körmy) a young man tries to avoid draft by pretending to have so bad eyes he can't even see the eye test. When the doctor says he will be released from service and asks him to bring him a form from the third pile by the wall the man makes the mistake by walking to the papers and bringing in the right one.
There's the joke about the fox, the bunny, and the bear who want to avoid conscription. The fox thinks he is going into military intelligence and pretends to be stupid. The bunny thinks he is going to be a spy and cuts off his ears. The bear thinks he is going to become a fighter and pulls his teeth and claws... then is rejected because he is too fat (or has flat feet).
A guy asked his older friend how he managed to dodge the draft. "Do you see that tree over there?" asks the latter. "Yes", says the former. "Well, I don't".note Implying that he faked being blind.
Thomas Mann's novel Confessions of Felix Krull subverts this: The character knows that the doctors are very generous in declaring even sick people fit for the army; so he instead fakes being a sick but enthusiastic guy, who plays down his obvious-but-fake maladies. It works.
In The Good Soldier Švejk, set right before and during World War I, there are a variety of men trying to avoid conscription by appearing ill, resorting to injecting gasoline into their legs and other outlandish methods (all played for comedy). The army has a special "hospital" for malingerers, where they put them on a strict diet, and, among other things, wrap them in wet sheets - even the ones who really have tuberculosis.
Subverted by the protagonist, who volunteers, despite suffering from rheumatism so bad that he can't even walk, and he's wheeled to the recruitment office by his charwoman. And then he's promptly sent to the above-mentioned special hospital ward.
Later into the book, one-year volunteer Mareknote One-year volunteer - Einjährigfreiwilliger - is his rank in the Austrian military, a designation for a "reserve officer candidate", he was actually drafted. is introduced, who describes his failed attempts to catch rheumatism - he slept in gutters in rain and bathed in icy river - which only hardened him to cold, so he felt perfectly fit after spending the whole night sleeping on snow. He also tried to catch a venereal disease, visiting a brothel daily, but he remained immune. Finally he met a disabled soldier who injected him with something which made him suffer a "real rheumatism" so he can hardly move.
"That precious soul had not deceived me. And so finally I had my muscular rheumatism."
In the Tim Dorsey novel Orange Crush, the Lt Governor of Florida was revealed to have never registered for the draft. To avoid the political fallout of him being seen as a draft dodger (even though there was no war in which the government was actually drafting people to fight in at the time), his handlers arrange for him to join the National Guard, intending to file paperwork claiming that he had an injury that prevented him from serving in the field. Unfortunately, said paperwork had not been filed by the time his unit was called up and sent to Kosovo.
An Iranian in On Wings of Eagles avoided service in the Shah's army by pretending to have an incurable twitching disease. After twitching for hours in front of numerous doctors (which turned out to be rather exhausting) he eventually got a medical exemption.
Dave Barry in Dave Barry Turns 50, mentions a guy who wore the same underwear for several days, not even removing them to go to the bathroom(!) so that the doctors reject him solely to avoid them getting near him. He also says that to him, this guy was quite a bit more honorable than Henry Kissinger.
Spike Milligan averted this trope. He really did put his back out a day or two before his call-up date, necessitating medical treatment and bedrest. This delayed his arrival with his regiment. As Milligan said, in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, claiming you're unfit for military service because you have a bad back rings as true as the lodger, naked in bed with the landlady, claiming the laundry's late.
Only in my case... the laundry was late.
In The Godfather, it was mentioned that one of the services that the Mafia provided to their men and the families who paid them tribute was a network of crooked doctors willing to provide fake medical deferments to draftees during WWII. Michael Corleone notably did not use this service (he enlisted voluntarily), but Vito eventually pulled some strings to get him a medical discharge instead of a Purple Heart and return to duty after he was wounded in combat. The last flashback scene of the second movie actually has Sonny expressing his displeasure over Michael enlisting after the strings their father pulled to get everyone in the family a deferment.
Live-Action TV
Parodied in Arrested Development when Buster tries to avoid re-enlistment:
Buster: ...hole in my heart. I've never opened my eyes underwater. My genital area is shaped like a lobster tail but without its shell. Uh, oh, I guess I have the panic attacks under control. Oh, and I'm legally blind at night.
Narrator: But Buster had miscalculated the Army's current need for personnel.
Army doctor: Okay, then, let's get you fitted for a uniform!
Another Dad's Army example. Private Walker (the platoon's Honest John's Dealership) was called up for service but dodged it because of an 'allergy to corned beef'. Unlike Pike's rare blood type, it was strongly implied that this was another of Walker's scams.
An episode of Foyle's War featured a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.
A QI episode discussed how during WWI, Germans and British propaganda teams bombed each other with leaflets carrying information on how to fake symptoms of tuberculosis so that you can be sent back. Methods including smoking 30 cigarettes per day to get the heart palpitations, raspy voice, and cough; putting toothpaste into your eyes to make them watery and bloodshot, and mixing some smegma into your sputum samples to fool the people doing the biopsy.
On M*A*S*H, Klinger tried to fake many ailments that were getting other soldiers discharged, like having fainting spells. In one episode, Klinger really did lose his hearing. When it returned, he was excited until Potter informed him being deaf would have been his ticket out of the Army.
Another time he pretended not to believe that he wasn't in the Army or in Korea. He was so convincing Colonel Potter started to fill out the discharge form. Even as Potter asked him for details for the form Klinger pretended not to know he was letting him out of the army. Then the colonel asked his ranks and he replied "Corporal".
Once Upon a Time: Rumpelstiltskin plays with this — he is drafted and willingly goes to serve, hoping to prove he isn't a coward like his father, but eventually learns from a prophecy that his actions in the war will leave his son fatherless. He thus escapes being sent into battle by breaking his own leg and getting a medical discharge, which his wife deems an act of cowardice; years later, this leads to his being separated from his son, per the prophecy.
Just Another Band from L.A. by Frank Zappa has a track named "Billy The Mountain", in which Billy the mountain is persecuted for draft evasion. Zappa also recorded "I Don't Want To Get Drafted", a song appearing on "You Are What You Is" (1980) and "The Lost Episodes" (1995).
The Darwin Awards Web site includes a story of a farmhand who was killed while trying to dodge the draft in WWII. He tried to get a horse to kick him and injure him enough to disqualify him. He succeeded too well and received a lethal injury.
Another tale involves a Pole who attempted to get a lion to bite him. It bit off his arm.
Several Urban Legends, such as the story of one guy who pretended to be deaf. It seems that the doctors are buying it, but when he leaves, one of them asks him to close the door on his way out; when he answers, they know he isn't really deaf.
Another story (Urban Legend?) from West Germany: A man substituted his diabetic girlfriend's urine sample for his own in order to convince the draft board that he had diabetes, but his plan failed because the urine sample also tested positive for pregnancy.
Definitely Urban Legend - they would have to have specifically tested for a pregnancy hormone to detect it.
In the second Destroy All Humans!, one of the side missions has you get a draft-dodging hippy to the base so he could serve.
Western Animation
Bluto tried this in a classic Popeye short. However, once he and Popeye are attacked by Japanese spies, he changes his mind and enlists.
Averted and played with by Hank Hill in King of the Hill. Hank's dad, Cotton, lied about his age and enlisted at age 15 so he could fight in World War II and makes fun of him by calling him a draft dodger for not serving in the Army. The real reason Hank did not serve in the Army was that when he tried to enlist at age 18, he was disqualified due to having a narrow urethra, and the Vietnam War had been over for some time.
Gay option
In The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy gets his notice, and when his poor physical shape and massive drug use don't get him rejected, he sheepishly claims to be gay...and they tell him he can be in General Gaylord's Homosexual Battalion (We're VERY disciplined!). He freaks and bolts out the fire escape.
One issue of MAD had a comic satirizing army life. At one point, the protagonist tries to get out of enlisting by pretending to be gay. It doesn't work, because the psychiatrist is gay and sees right through his act.
In the "In All Kinds Of Weather" series of M*A*S*H fanfics, Hawkeye and Trapper both got an "undesirable discharge" after Frank Burns caught them having sex together.
In the Israeli movie Lemon Popsicle, two guys do this.
In the movie Stonewall, the Drag Queen is frightened to go to the draft board and say he's gay, so his Straight Gay boyfriend goes in his place. ...in drag.
The 1969 comedy The Gay Deceivers has two guys doing this to keep out of Vietnam. It turns out they needn't have bothered, because the guys from the draft board are themselves gay and trying to keep straight people out.
The German novel Der Untertan has a one-shot character, an actor, doing this. (This novel is set in Imperial Germany.)
According to (apocryphal) legend, Lenny Bruce wore a dress to his draft bureau in order to avoid service.note Lenny Bruce actually enlisted in the US Navy at age 16, serving in WWII. He wore a WAVES uniform one time as part of a skit. His superior ordered a psych-evaluation so out of spite, he pretended to be gay. Klinger on M*A*S*H is a direct reference to these myths, except that in Klinger's case his cross-dressing was an attempt to convince the Army that he was insane rather than gay.
Note that when he was offered a discharge for actually being gay, he took offense. (And another episode featured the reverse—a gay man who wanted to stay in the Army.)
The reason Klinger refused was that if he had taken the discharge, he would have been unemployable in the civilian world because he was gay.
A Swedish urban legend says that draft dodgers who claimed to be homosexual were sent to a gay-only boot camp on the isle of Gotland. The idea of an island full of armed gays, who would presume that all rookies were gay as well, would deter teens from feigning homosexuality. Apparently, the gay unit was a fiction made up by the military. During periods of Swedish history, homosexuality has been considered a disease or a crime, but it was never considered a valid reason to avoid the draft.
Another urban legend claims that some men would avoid being drafted by sitting on a bottle. This would make them look an active passive gay during the medical test.
Archer: Camp Gay Ray Gillette mentions a (straight) friend pretended to be gay and interested in him to avoid the draft. Ray figured out his friend wasn't gay, so Ray alerted his draft board and had him sent to Vietnam.
Ray: Well who's laughing now, mister hooks for hands! [beat] A booby trap blew off both his hands.
Madness option
Sturmtruppen had an arc based on this and the famous Catch-22 example (see below), with a soldier finding out that the regulations allow to demand discharge for madness... Only for the sergeant to dub all his attempts at being proving himself crazy as proof he's an idiot. In the end, he succeeds when he volunteers to dispose of avariated nitroglycerin (much more likely to explode on a whim than normal nitroglycerin, hence the sergeant not actually expecting volunteers and asking him if he was insane when he did)... Only for the doctor to point out that, according to the Catch 22 of the regulations, asking to be discharged on grounds of madness is proof you're not crazy, and thus he's stuck with the disposal. He gets the discharge anyway when the fear literally drives him mad, the sergeant delivering it while he's been dragged to the asylum.
Drive, He Said: In the days leading up to his induction physical, Gabriel subjects himself to Sleep Deprivation and takes lots of drugs. When the day comes, he behaves in as disruptive a manner as possible, eventually getting kicked out for brawling with a doctor. Unfortunately for him, the stress ends up driving him insane for real.
A rather funny aversion from Richard Feynman's autobiography: he was denied entry on the grounds of being a loony, simply because he would occasionally hold one-sided conversations with his deceased wife. Also, he answered honestly the question of whether he thought people were staring at him. There are a bunch of people waiting in the room to take their test, but it's a mostly empty room with nothing to look at except the people who are currently being tested, so Feynman drew the logical conclusion.
His guess was dead-on too, at least before other people started looking. And he reported each new person too. The psychiatrist, not even looking up from his clipboard to verify the number, thought he was a narcissist.
Another version goes that everything was going smoothly until the shrink asked him what he thought was the value of a human life, to which Feynman responded "64". When asked why he picked 64 and not, say, 72, he replied "'Cause then you would have asked me "Why 72?"." The upshot of all this is that Feynman later wrote a letter to the draft board protesting his failed psych-eval, on the grounds that he was insane enough not to want to take advantage of it. See below.
Catch-22. Well, attempted, as the clause Catch-22 makes it so that trying to be declared insane to avoid combat is a lose-lose situation - if you are insane, filing the forms to declare yourself insane proves your sanity. You'll be flying combat missions, deal with it.
Older Than Feudalism example: In The Trojan Cycle, Odysseus tries to get out of fighting the Trojan War by hooking a donkey and an ox to a plow and sowing a field with salt. King Agamemnon's messenger, Palamedes, calls the bluff by placing Odysseus' infant son in front of the plow; Odysseus proves that he's sane by swerving out of the way.
Odysseus took his revenge and Palamedes died early in the siege, according to one version because Odysseus planted evidence that "proved" Palamedes' collusion with the Trojans, leading to his death by stoning, according to others by Odysseus and his good friend Diomedes killing him.
Advocated by Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Book:
When you get your invite to join the army, there are lots of ways you can prepare yourself mentally. Begin by staggering up to a cop and telling him you don't know who you are or where you live. He'll arrange for you to be chauffeured to the nearest mental hospital. There you repeat your performance, dropping the clue that you have used LSD in the past, but you aren't sure if you're on it now or not. In due time, they'll put you up for the night. When morning comes, you bounce out of bed, remember who you are, swear you'll never drop acid again and thank everyone who took care of you. Within a few hours, you'll be discharged. Don't be uptight about thinking how they'll lock you up forever cause you really are nuts. The hospitals measure victories by how quickly they can throw you out the door. They are all overcrowded anyway. In most areas, a one-night stand in a mental hospital is enough to convince the shrink at the induction center that you're capable of eating the flesh of a colonel. Just before you go, see a sympathetic psychiatrist and explain your sad mental shape. He'll get verification that you did time in a hospital and include it in his letter, that you'll take along to the induction center.
Corporal Max Klinger on M*A*S*H is an interesting case, in that he kept this up even after it failed (he did decline the gay option when it was offered, though; see the above section). He was also apparently not the first member of his family to attempt it.
At one point, Klinger worried he really was going crazy. He gestured towards the dress he was wearing and asked Sidney Freeman, "Would a sane man dress like this?"
Another episode featured a soldier, Corporal "Boots" Miller, who really was nuts. He talked to his shoes and socks and conducted man-on-the-street interviews in the mess tent with a ladle. One night on guard duty, he began shooting at imaginary gliders with his rifle, which disturbed Klinger so much he said, "If they offered me a Section 8 right now, I'd give it to you!"
Subverted in Arlo Guthrie's famous "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". He goes to the draft office and starts jumping up and down shouting "Kill! KILL!" and stating that he wants to eat dead burnt bodies. They give him a medal.
The gay version is also alluded to: Guthrie tells the audience that if two people go to the Army psychiatrist and sing this song together in harmony, "they'll think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them."
There is the story of the Saxon who came to draft smiling and giggling asking when he is going to get his gun. When asked about anything he just said he didn't care and just wanted to be handed his gun already. The examiners became incredibly creeped out when he started whispering "Bang. Hehe." and he became angry about all the examinations and shouted "I just came here to finally get my damned gun. GIVE ME MY GUN ALREADY!" In the end, they told him his gun would come in the mail and shooed him home. Security was tightened and laughs between friends were shared respectively.
Sweden, being one of the last countries in the world to practice universal conscription even in peacetime, has a rich Oral Tradition of stories of this type, particularly since psychiatric disability is one of the easiest "outs" to fake. Some are purely humorous (My buddy rolled himself up in the rug and said he was a hot dog!), others have a moral ending (My cousin claimed he was narcoleptic, so they took his driver's license.) The abolition of conscription means that this tradition is slowly dying. It was dying beforehand, too — the end of the Cold War didn't mean the end of formal universal conscription, but it did result in a massive drop of how many actually were drafted, with a corresponding increasing ease in not being drafted. However, Sweden brought back conscription in 2017 due to Russia's actions across Eastern Europe, meaning that such stories are likely to be bandied about by a new generation of Swedes (both men and women, as now the Swedish draft is gender-neutral).
In Finland universal draft for men is still going strong and until relatively recently was very difficult to dodge. Back when it was extremely hard to get out there was more sympathy for dodgers than today, and from those days there comes this amusing little anecdote / urban legend: When a man came to the army, he kept pretending to ride an invisible scooter everywhere, making motor sounds with his mouth and holding his arms extended in front of him. No matter how many disciplinary measures were taken on him, and even after a couple of beatings from his fellow privates he just kept going relentlessly. Finally his superiors had enough of his antics and had a psychiatrist declare him unfit for military service. At the gates of the garrison, he suddenly stopped, mimed taking a key from his imaginary scooter and handed it to one of the MPs saying: "I hereby relinquish the army vehicle to your care, sir", and walked away normally, whistling happily as he went.
Another version of the story has the man break into laughter when someone asks him to give a ride with the bike, thus proving that he is not insane.
Escape option
Superman: The first Bloodsport, Robert DuBois, fled to Canada when drafted into the Vietnam War. His brother Mikey enlisted, pretending to be him, but lost all four limbs in combat. When Robert heard, he went insane with guilt and became obsessed with the war, to the point of delusionally believing he served alongside his brother.
In Discworld fic Hyperemesis Gravidarum by A.A. Pessimal, an Assassins' Guild graduate is seen industriously finding new and pressing reasons to extend her stay in Ankh-Morpork so as to avoid national service in her native country. The expectation is that after being sponsored through the toughest school on the Disc for seven years and having been taught lots of skills which would be useful to her Staadt, as one educated overseas at State expense she is expected to return Home and repay her country's investment in her. by signing up in a useful capacity. Heidi van Kruger has other ideas that do not include two years in the paramilitary Secret Police. She notes to herself, seeing the example of a compatriot, that marriage and pregnancy would be a heroic last-ditch exemption. By the end of the story there is, in fact, a potential husband.
In period piece fanfiction X-Men 1970, a group of activists hold people hostage to force the authorities to provide an escape vehicle with which flee to Canada and dodge the Vietnam draft.
American Graffiti: While it's not stated outright, the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue hints that this was what Curt ended up doing. (As of 1973, he's "a writer living in Canada".)
Girl, Interrupted: Susanna's friend flees to Canada to avoid being sent to Vietnam. He invites her to come with him, but she declines.
In the documentary Hearts and Minds, one young man who has been hiding out from the draft decides, against his mother's advice, to turn himself in and make a public statement.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning: Dean has been drafted to fight in The Vietnam War, but plans to flee to Mexico instead.
Vixen! (1968): Niles is from the USA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted into Vietnam, and explains he did so because he doesn't feel like risking his life fighting for a country that doesn't treat him fairly on account of the color of his skin. The racist Vixen is unsympathetic and calls him a coward.
Played realistically/averted in Tim O'Brien's partly fictional novel The Things They Carried. O'Brien attempts to escape to Canada, waiting in a rented room at a lodge for days to cross the border by canoe. He realizes he doesn't have the courage to do it (how much of the story is actually true is up for debate).
In The Good Soldier Švejk, the protagonist misses a train to the army base and tries to go there on foot, getting completely lost on the way. He meets several draft dodgers during his "anabasis", and can't convince them that he isn't one.
In REAMDE, Richard Forthrast's backstory involves him fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft. This earns him the nickname "Dodge," which he doesn't seem to mind. After starting a video game company, he even calls an in-game avatar "Egdod."
In the Kate Shugak novels, this is part of the backstory for Bernie Koslowski, who runs The Roadhouse in the Park. He fled to Canada during the Vietnam War to avoid the draft. He kept drifting north and eventually wound up in Alaska. He has an Odd Friendship with Bobby Clarke, a Vietnam vet who lost both legs to a landmine.
A Thousand Acres: One of the triggers for the disasters to come (the book is a Whole-Plot Reference to King Lear) is the reappearance of Jess Clark (the Edmund character) after 13 years away in Canada, having fled the country in 1966 to escape Vietnam.
Michael, a one-shot character appearing the Stargate SG-1 episode "1969," gives the time-displaced SG-1 a lift to New York on his way to an unnamed concert (likely Woodstock). During the trip, he and his girlfriend Jenny talk about how he received his draft notice and is considering going to Canada to avoid the war.
Michael: Hey, we're cool. After the concert, me and Jenny, we're even thinking about crossing the border up to Canada.
Teal'c: For what reason?
Michael: You know, man... the war.
Teal'c: The war with Canada?
Michael: ... No.
American Dreams had Helen use her travel agent job to help at least one boy escape to Canada and it was implied she helped others. Had the show continued she would have been arrested for her trouble. The show also had dealt previously with Nathan, member of the Nation of Islam, choosing to serve jail time rather than violate his pacifist beliefs.
An All in the Family Christmas special had one of Mike's friends, a draft dodger living in Canada, coming down to the Bunkers' place after Mike invites him over for Christmas dinner. One of Archie's friends, who lost his son in Vietnam, also comes over. Awkward.
It didn't turn out so awkward after all. The friend understood why Mike's friend went to Canada, told Archie that he didn't like the war, and would've like to have Christmas dinner with the guy. Archie was the one who felt and looked foolish.
Neelix's backstory in Star Trek: Voyager included this, as seen in "Jetrel". He was afraid to die in the war (though he tried to convince himself he was a conscientious objector) between the Talaxians and the Haakonians, and went into hiding to avoid the Talaxian draft. Then the Haakonians used a WMD on Talax's inhabited moon Rinax, an event that was basically Hiroshima Recycled IN SPACE!. Talax surrendered the next day.
Community mentions that Pierce moved to Canada to sit out the Vietnam War.
Hyde's father on That '70s Show mentions he was a "conscientious Canadian" during the Vietnam War.
Subverted on Border Security: Canada's Front Line. A Korean man arrives in Canada to study. A CBSA agent suspects he's trying to hide out to avoid military service. It's eventually cleared up he was planning to apply as a Combat Medic, which took several months to process, so he's cleared to enter Canada, albeit with the caution he could only stay for six months in a year without a visa.
Doctor Who: In "Paradise Towers'', Pex was called up to fight in the Great Offscreen War, but instead stowed away on the ship carrying the children and old folk to Paradise Towers. He is universally reviled by all of the inhabitants of the Towers.
The Twilight Zone (1985):
In "Dead Run", a man who dodged the draft and crossed the border to Canada during the Vietnam War is sent to Hell by the fundamentalist Dispatcher who has recently taken over the Celestial Bureaucracy.
In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff McDowell was drafted in 1971 but went to college in Canada instead of going to Vietnam. His high school girlfriend and future wife Denise went with him. In an Alternate Universe, however, Jeff went to Vietnam and lost both of his legs.
A French Village: There's a non-military example with many young Frenchmen running off to avoid forced labor in Germany which they're conscripted into.
The Led Zeppelin song "Night Flight" is about someone doing this.
The Flying Burrito Brothers' "My Uncle" is a jolly country song about "headin' for the nearest foreign border/Vancouver might be just my kind of town" to escape the Vietnam draft.
Briefly Discussed/Defied in the Charlie Daniels song "Still in Saigon":
I coulda gone to Canada, or I could have stayed in school
But I was brought up differently; I couldn't break the rules
Jesse Winchester was a dual citizen who headed to Canada when he was drafted. "Mississippi You're On My Mind " is about being homesick.
Older Than Feudalism example: Achilles' immortal mother knew that he would either die in inglorious old age or not return from fighting before Troy, so she unsuccessfully tried to get him out of serving in the Trojan War by hiding among the daughters of king Lykomedes of Skyros dressed as a woman. The deceit was exposed by Odysseus and Achilles was so ashamed of having participated in this deceit that he joined the army against Troy even though he was no former suitor of Helen and therefore not oath-bound. In other words: If she had done nothing, he wouldn't have had to fight and no need to restore his honor? Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, er, side character.
Other versions have the prophecy say Achilles' life would be glorious and short or lengthy and dull (not specifying Troy), at which his mother decided to hide him as a woman, knowing the oathmakers wanted to have Achilles' skill with them at Troy. Odysseus, attempting to root out Achilles, presented a variety of items to the daughters, and Achilles picks up a sword, giving Odysseus proof to be suspicious and reveals who Achilles is. Achilles is presented as being eager to fight, and only hides at the behest of his mother.
Stand-up comic John Wing, when talking about his family, referred to an uncle "stationed in Canada" during the Vietnam War. "Chicken Wing," they called him.
In The Sound of Music, Captain von Trapp and his family escape from Nazi-occupied Austria so that he may avoid serving in the German navy.
This is discussed in the Hey Arnold! Veteran's Day special. While recounting his experiences during The Vietnam War, Gerald's father explains how the war was very unpopular with the American public and several draftees fled to Canada to avoid serving. While he considered doing it himself, he ultimately decided it was his duty as an American citizen to serve whether he agreed with the war or not.
Gangs of New York follows the build-up to the historical New York City Draft Riots as the major B-Plot of the movie (and the riots themselves eventually interfere with the A-Plot, killing most of the cast as collateral damage). The reason why these riots occurred was that the New York rich paid to be left out of the draft on the Civil War and the poor (including shanghaied immigrants) were unable to do so.
Similar rioting happened in Wisconsin, where the largely recently immigrated Belgian community revolted against the perception that they were being preferentially drafted so that rich WASPs and more settled English-speaking immigrants could dodge service in the Union armies. Troops desperately needed for the front lines, at a time when the Confederacy was winning all the battles and looked like driving to Washington, had to be diverted to Wisconsin to restore order.
The Curse of the Blue Figurine: In the eleventh book of the series, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder, the book's antagonist Jarmyn Thanatos (under the name Jarmyn Nemo, one of his many aliases) is noted to have paid a substitute to join the Union Army in his place in 1862.
Mixed/other/unspecified
In Superman & Batman: Generations, both Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne's sons are offered deferments but refuse, Joel Kent because he feels like he has to prove himself and Bruce Jr. because he doesn't think it's fair to use his father's wealth and status that way. When the Joker kills Dick Grayson (Batman II), BJ takes the deferment because the world needs a Batman.
A Donald Duck story presents Donald as having pulled it accidentally, as his notification had been lost in the mail and he was under the impression he had been exempted due to his duck physiology giving him flat feet and making him short and chubby-an argument shot down by the general on his case for the accidental dodging being a duck himself. When the army finds out and decides to draft him he tries to get exempted by crouching just enough to appear too short, only for the general seeing it coming and straightening him (Donald is just tall enough to qualify). Then, at the end of basic training, he asks for a license before deployment because his nephews are coming home from the Junior Woodchucks camp and he needs to find them a new home... At which point the general realizes he's forcing the sole caretaker of three orphans to serve in the army and exempts him.
Sergeant York is a movie about... well, Sergeant York and how he was a pacifist due to his interpretation of the Bible, and so attempted to resist being drafted. But he gets drafted anyway, as the church he followed was so remote that the draft board couldn't prove it even existed for the purposes of a Conscientious Objector exemption. As a country boy from the Appalachian Mountains, he was extremely effective at killing Germans and became a famous American hero, and the most decorated American soldier of WWI.
Across the Universe (2007) has Max comically opting for "all of the above". He swallows some cotton before he goes in for his physical exam when he is drafted, with the idea that it'll come up as a fuzzy spot on his X-ray. They don't even do an X-ray. Other options suggested are pretending to be a sociopath so he'll flunk a psych screening, claiming to be a pedophile, and eating lots of beets the night before the test so it looks like he's peeing blood.
Army Sergeant: Is there any reason you shouldn't be in this man's Army?
Max: I'm a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung.
Army Sergeant: As long as you don't have flat feet.
All of the above except going to Canada. He doesn't want to go there at all.
Inverted in Captain America: The First Avenger. Steve Rogers gets rejected by the draft board nearly eight times (for a variety of health issues that make it a minor miracle that he'd lived long enough to enlist). They finally let him join the army if he agrees to be part of Dr. Abraham Erskine's experiment... and we all know how that turns out.
Getting Straight: After dropping out of college, Nick converts to Buddhism to avoid being sent to Vietnam. When that doesn't work, he carries a purse and talks with a lisp, but nobody buys it. He comes back from the recruitment center gleefully crowing about how he defeated the draft once and for all... by joining the Marines. He can't wait to serve his country by firing a machine gun from a helicopter. Harry is shocked by his attitude transplant. Nick soon gets rejected by the Marines for being "constitutionally inferior," thereby dodging the draft without trying.
The beginning of Robert A. Heinlein's novel Glory Road has an extensive description of various means used to dodge the draft in the United States during the Vietnam War. The protagonist finally chooses to be voluntarily drafted because he has no other viable options.
In A Prayer for Owen Meany, the main character avoids the draft during the Vietnam War by cutting off his index finger. He later leaves for Canada.
At the beginning of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway is talking about how he was born into money and mentions that his grandfather was wealthy enough to hire a substitute to serve in the Civil War.
In The Brothers K by David James Duncan, one brother, a gentle pacifist, is drafted during the Vietnam War. The family attempts to have the local church vouch for him, but the preacher has a grudge against him. He is sent to Vietnam and the stress takes a heavy toll on his sanity.
Lt Keith of The Caine Mutiny voluntarily signs up for Naval OCS and becomes a Navy officer to avoid being drafted and becoming an Army grunt. During the enlistment process he nearly ends up getting a medical exemption from serving at all over a spinal condition.
Happens at the start of The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (through fake documents), but is naturally averted, as the title reveals.
It's stated in Phoenix and Ashes that Robbie uses his ability to dislocate his shoulders at will to avoid the WWI draft. In his case, it's because he's much happier acting as a bodyguard/enforcer for a crooked lawyer (The Dragon for the novel's villain); he would have been quite capable of acting as a soldier.
In Bruce Coville's short story With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm, there are people who avoid being drafted into the endless wars on the continent of Losfar because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and executed for it. He promptly comes Back from the Dead to force his king to withdraw from the wars entirely (and later leads a Cavalry of the Dead to talk a massive army of enemy soldiers into deserting in order to put off their own deaths).
Isaac Asimov's "In a Good Cause—": Altmayer is jailed on June 17, 2755, because he refused to accept Conscription against the human government of Santanni. He would rather fight against the alien Diaboli.
In David Eddings' Regina's Song, it's mentioned early on that Les Greenfield, the narrator's father's boss, tried to get an educational deferment during Vietnam years before the story started, but after his alma mater flunked him out for majoring in partying rather than an actual academic path, he got drafted anyway.
The Land Mine: Derek's mom suspects her brother, Derek's uncle Ted, did this. According to Derek, when the war began, Ted transferred from being a meat counter in Sainsbury's to working as a storekeeper for a munition's factory, meaning he couldn't be enlisted into the army. It earned him the nickname "The Artful Dodger" from Derek's dad.
There's a variation in the WWII Brit Com Dad's Army. Frank Pike doesn't want to evade military service, but his medical test reveals a rare blood group. He's excused from active service on the grounds that they'd have nothing to transfuse him with in the event of injury. So he stays in the Home Guard instead.
Brazilian soap opera O Rei do Gado (The King of Cattle) featured several Brazilians getting married as soon as possible because the Brazilian military was drafting bachelors to serve during World War II.
Several variations of service members trying to get out of the military happens in JAG, along with a few cases of individuals who really want to join the Navy or Marines but don't qualify (usually because they're too young).
An episode of Mad Men had Don try to find a way to get his mistress's son out of the Vietnam War draft. The kid used to be exempt because he was in college but lost his exemption due to a stupid anti-war stunt. Unfortunately Don does not have the right connections to accomplish this and it looks like the kid will have to flee to Canada. In the end, one of Don's partners calls in a favour to get the kid into the Air National Guard.
In Weeds, Andy's Army Reserve unit is called up for duty in Iraq. He gets a deferment by enrolling in rabbinical school, as theology students qualify for the chaplain corps.
M*A*S*H: In addition to the other examples listed above, Klinger tried other methods including making up family emergencies (to the point Col. Blake had a drawer full of them), gaining enough weight to count as disabled, and in one episode building a hang-glider to fly his way out.
Motherland: Fort Salem: Witches who do not answer the enlistment call are hunted down by the military and are either killed or imprisoned, the former of which happened to Scylla's parents.
Blake's 7. Vila claims he bribed someone to give him a lower intelligence rating so he wouldn't be drafted as a Federation officer. Avon of course replies that in his case the bribe was unnecessary.
Several are mentioned in "Draft Dodger Rag" which provides the page quote: aside from homosexuality and sicknesses, the narrator also mentions his "poor old invalid aunt", that he's "addicted to a thousand drugs" and that he's working at a defense plant.
The dialogue of "Alice's Restaurant" claims that singing this song to the draft board, alone or in groups, will convince the board that you're crazy, gay, and/or part of an organized protest against conscription.
Although these days, when Arlo Guthrie sings it live, that bit's been changed to say that singing this song to the draft board, alone or in groups, will prompt the board to make a sarcastic comment about your old-fashioned taste in music.
There's a double subversion earlier in the song. When Arlo is called up, he fakes being a murderous lunatic during his psychiatric assessment. It fails - they give him a medal instead. However, he's later rejected when they discover he has a criminal record... for littering.
Frank Zappa's mini-Rock Opera "Billy The Mountain" is about a secret government agent tracking down a mountain (yes, a literal mountain) who's refusing to report to the draft office. It ends badly for him, since
A mountain is something you don't wanna fuck with!
Allan Sherman's "Dodging the Draft" offers several tips for doing such. Aside from the inevitable homosexuality, sickness, and disability claims, he also suggests saying that "you don't need the army 'cause you've seen Bob Hope", bragging that "you studied under Cassius Clay" and that "Benedict Arnold was on [your] father's side", and offering the officer a light for his cigarette by burning your draft card. "If the draft board acts in the usual way", he says, "you'll be what I call... 1-A!" note (1-A means "available for unrestricted military service" in the Selective Service classification system.)
In the music video for Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" a man is seen burning his draft card.
Several of these are mentioned / discussed in the Hair musical.
If you enact the Conscription defense edict in Tropico 4, the Tropican emigration rate increases as some people leave the country entirely to avoid the draft.
Ilmari Gasotto in Valkyria Chronicles III dodged the draft simply because he didn't feel like going. He got drafted into the Nameless for this.
There was a WWII-era Daffy Duck cartoon, Draftee Daffy, where Daffy was trying to evade "that dope from the draft board". Daffy's approach is simply to run and hide from anyone trying to draft him until the drafts stop. Unfortunately, the person trying to give him the draft card, the aptly named "Little Man from the Draft Board", is about as persistent as Droopy.
In The Looney Tunes Show episode, "Semper Lie", Bugs tells a lie to avoid himself from getting in the Army. And Daffy ends up as the one in the service. However, Bugs gets convicted at the end of the episode.
Prowl of Transformers: Animated is revealed to have tried this in his backstory.
The Simpsons: Abe once claimed to have disguised himself as a woman to avoid military service. While in drag, he joined an all-women's baseball team and the masquerade ended when his wig fell during a game. Then again, given how inconsistent the tales about his past usually are, one must wonder if it really happened.
Especially as in at least one episode it was shown he was a Squad Leader of a group of soldiers in World War II and a bonafide War Hero.
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Jacintha Saldanha - an excellent nurse lost
The BBC news report describes Jacintha Saldanha thus
' who had worked at the hospital for more than four years, "was an excellent nurse and well-respected and popular with all of her colleagues".
"Everyone is shocked by the loss of a much loved and valued colleague," he added.
Royal College of Nursing chief executive Dr Peter Carter, meanwhile, said it was "deeply saddening that a simple human error due to a cruel hoax could lead to the death of a dedicated and caring member of the nursing profession".'
Jacintha fell victim to a hoax call by two radio hosts from Australia who effectively tricked her into giving out patient information over the phone. She probably believed she was speaking to a relative (the caller claimed to be the grandmother of the patient) but later discovered she had been tricked into giving out patient information. I am pleased to read that Dr Carter describes her action as one of 'human error'. She was working a night shift, was possibly very tired and may have been preoccupied with the many duties nurses start doing around 5 am. There is usually little time to answer phone calls at this point in the shift.
The Australian equivalent of the RCN described the process an Australian nurse would go through after making an error such as this - indeed, the same for English nurses. As a profession, we need to ensure that errors are investigated but the current system does little to ensure that the ' human-ness' of errors is accepted as an integral part of the error.
It was heartening to read that the hospital involved had offered Jacintha support during the ordeal and ensured that her previous hard work and good service record was highlighted. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. The area of error reporting in hospitals is a difficult one. We are assured that incidents and near misses are opportunities for reflective practice and self learning. Errors are also supposed to highlight deficiencies in hospital procedures so that all staff can learn and hopefully avoid the same error. We are told that the error reporting process is not 'punitive' but the reality belies this. Any nurse who has waited up to two years or more for his/her case to be heard by an Investigative Review Board would laugh at the suggestion. Added to the stress of an investigation into practice, some nurses find themselves locked out of employment as a nurse,despite having no restrictions recorded against their practice. An overseas nurse in the position of supporting a family in the UK or in the home country or both may well have no recourse to public funds and panic about the inability to continue supporting his or her family.
There are many reasons why hospital workers make errors. And, here I am talking about genuine mistakes, errors which were not intended. For example,
Tiredness - shift work, working so-called 'long day shifts', working night shifts
Lack of rest time between night shifts ending and day shifts starting - the 'jetlag' feeling
Understaffing -trying to care for too many patients with too little staff
Interruptions during procedures - phone calls, requests by staff,patients or relatives whilst on a medication round or in the middle of a procedure
Personal issues -stress at home, financial worries
My hope is that Dr Carter's words are remembered, that it is ' deeply saddening that a simple human error due to a cruel hoax could lead to the death of a dedicated and caring member of the nursing profession' and that we start to look at the many,many errors, that are being made by health workers and ask ourselves - Why are unintended errors being made by experienced doctors and nurses? Why are so few reported ? What can be done about the hospital culture that prevents errors from being genuinely viewed as learning experiences for a better health system?


As new governors, legislators, and local leaders take office in 2019 (and incumbent administrations return with renewed focus), cybersecurity should be a top priority because state and local governments face increasing cyberthreats. 2018 put state and local governments on notice, from the crippling ransomware attacks on Colorado's Department of Transportation, the city of Atlanta, and Baltimore's 911 and 311 systems, to the massive San Diego Unified School District data breach. These cyberattacks should raise concerns around the importance of state and local governments' portfolios of valuable citizen data and the critical infrastructure they manage and protect.
Technology and data are transforming how state and local governments make decisions and deliver services. Citizen expectations for smart, online government services have powered a digital revolution in statehouses and city halls. "Smart" IoT-enabled public infrastructure will help governments provide unprecedented services, public safety, and economic opportunity. But a 21st-century government infrastructure must be protected with equally modern cybersecurity defenses, just like a thriving downtown requires expertly trained and well-funded police and fire departments. It's time for state and local leaders to rally support around a well-resourced cybersecurity strategy.
This is hardly breaking news to government IT staff. State and local government IT leaders have been the loudest proponents of cybersecurity prioritization, where it has routinely ranked No. 1 on surveys of government CIOs. The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) outlined its top 10 policy and technology priorities for 2019, and security and risk management topped the list. Likewise, e.Republic's* 2018 Digital Cities Survey of city government IT leaders once again returned cybersecurity as the No. 1 priority. And in their survey of county government IT priorities? Cybersecurity ranked No. 1 — for the fifth year in a row.
The good news is that the hard work to bring state and local government cybersecurity practices up to speed is underway. The National Governors Association has an ongoing initiative to prioritize cybersecurity, resulting in best practices and information sharing. Similarly, the National Conference of State Legislatures has a task force on cybersecurity ready to educate incoming elected officials. Many state and local governments have made progress, hiring chief information security officers (CISOs), enacting risk-based, data-driven cybersecurity practices, and investing in best-of-breed technology.
The bad news is that while many leaders have stepped up on the issue of cybersecurity, the threats and risks to government have only increased, outpacing progress and funding. Incoming leaders must establish a strategic, long-term plan to make cybersecurity a core competency within their governments.
According to a recent study of top IT security officers in 50 states, nearly half of states don't have a separate cybersecurity budget and of those that do, more than a third have seen static or even reduced budgets over time. It's clear that state and local government IT leaders often lack the funding to truly bolster their security posture.
In the bi-annual NASCIO/Deloitte cybersecurity survey, a lack of budget has been the No. 1 issue of state government CISOs every year since the survey began in 2010. According to the 2018 survey, the majority of states spend 1 to 2 percent of their IT budgets on cybersecurity, while a look at federal agencies saw cybersecurity receiving between 5 and 25 percent of overall IT spend. A 2017 Forrester report on U.S. private-sector cybersecurity budgets found a benchmark of 28 percent of overall IT spend.
These budget comparisons back up what state and local IT leaders have been red flagging for the better part of the last decade: cybersecurity is detrimentally underfunded at the state and local level. It's time to provide them with the funding they need to do their jobs.
A related challenge is filling cybersecurity staff positions. This problem isn't unique to government. If you were to ask 100 CISOs across every sector, from anywhere in the world, they would list acute problems finding and keeping cybersecurity talent as a top concern. A report from Cybersecurity Ventures estimates the global cybersecurity labor shortage will hit 3.5 million unfilled jobs by 2021.
What can governors and mayors do? First, as previously mentioned, properly fund your cybersecurity efforts. There's no question that you're going to need to pay more for cybersecurity talent in the short term, or you'll risk losing prospects or current employees. Underfunded cybersecurity budgets lead to non-competitive salaries in a hot market for talent.
Next, figure out a long-term talent pipeline that will not only serve your government's needs, but the many businesses, academic institutions, and nonprofits in your region that are also hungry to fill these roles. Answers need not look the same everywhere, but encourage your CIOs and CISOs to identify potential talent pipelines and then use your abilities as governor, as mayor, as county supervisor, to make your state, city and region a hive of cybersecurity talent.
In Georgia, outgoing Gov. Nathan Deal, Augusta Mayor Hardie Davis Jr., and local academic institutions championed efforts to create the Georgia Cyber Center, which will serve as the epicenter of Georgia's efforts to become a leader in cybersecurity technologies and "train the next generation of professionals through education and real-world practice." In California, the annual Mayor's Cyber Cup competition inspires high school students to consider pursuing careers in cybersecurity. Looking inward for talent, the federal government has recently announced a program aimed at reskilling current federal government employees with cybersecurity skills that qualify them for entry-level cybersecurity roles. Private-sector partners are also stepping up to provide innovative training programs, including courses for veterans.
State and local leaders have big jobs to do and long priority lists for 2019. However, the duty to protect citizens and critical infrastructure has always fallen heavily on the backs of state and local leaders — that duty to protect has shifted quickly towards the digital environment and leaders must respond by making cybersecurity a top priority. Adequate budgets and fostering a long-term pool of cybersecurity talent should be the focus for 2019.


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We've mentioned a time or two that we like (*love) to bake. Naturally then, holidays are our absolute favourite. Themed baked goods are just the best aren't they?! So Valentine's Day was no exception, and as expected, both #domesticphd test kitchens were getting their 'hearts-on' with the smell of fresh baked goods.


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Govt appoints Surjit Bhalla Executive Director for India at IMF
Bhalla (71) will succeed former RBI deputy governor Subir Gokarn, who died in the US on July 30 after a brief illness.
New Delhi | October 2, 2019 03:04 IST
Economist Surjit S Bhalla. (File photo)
Economist Surjit S Bhalla was on Tuesday appointed Executive Director for India on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an official order said.
Gokarn, who died at the age of 59, was appointed executive director for India on the board of the IMF in November 2015. He was supposed to complete his term in October.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the appointment of Bhalla for a period of three years from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier, the order said.
He is also a Contributing Editor with The Indian Express.
Bhalla, an economist and columnist, in December last year resigned as part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM). He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, a Masters in Public and International Affairs from Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and a BSEE degree from Purdue University.
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Experts are warning of a slew of legal action from freelancers who have been classified as workers, after a contractor settled with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for thousands of pounds late last week.
Marketing and business development consultant Susan Winchester (pictured above) lodged a claim at Central London Employment Tribunal for £4,200 in unpaid holiday against HMRC and four other parties earlier this year. She argued it was unfair that she was being treated as a worker for tax purposes but was not given crucial workers' rights in return.
Under the IR35 rules, which were introduced in April 2000, freelancers who work through a personal services company for a third party – and would be employees if not for the set-up – are required to pay tax and national insurance as if they were employees.
Initially, contractors decided whether they fell within IR35. In April 2017, the law was changed to require public sector organisations to determine the tax status of their freelancers instead. The government is considering extending the amends into the private sector.
HMRC engaged Winchester's company, SJW Marketing Solutions, in September 2016 for marketing services. When the tax rules changed in 2017, HMRC analysed the relationship using its Check Employment Status for Tax tool and determined IR35 should apply. Winchester was moved onto agency payroll.
The consultant argued that, as she was now deemed an agency worker, she should be entitled to holiday as if she were an HMRC employee. The parties settled on the morning the tribunal was due to start.


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Common funeral planning mistakes to avoid
Planning a funeral is never easy, especially if you've never had to do this before. Avoiding some of the common pitfalls that people often make can help to ensure that funeral plans go as smoothly as possible. Here's what to look out for:
Not having a budget
Funeral costs can quickly add up, so it's important to set yourself a budget right from the outset. Many people consider taking out pre-paid funeral plans so that when the time comes to organise a funeral, there's less of a financial burden.
Going for the cheapest option
While funerals are expensive, that doesn't necessarily mean you should automatically go for the cheapest options available. Cheap funerals might not include all the aspects you need, and, ultimately, it's important to give the deceased person the send-off they deserve.
Picking the first funeral home you find
Like any other service provider, you wouldn't just go for the first one you come across or the nearest to your home, so do your research and choose one that meets your needs precisely. While comparing costs is important, it's also crucial to weigh up how the funeral director comes across and how sympathetic they are to your needs.
Forgetting about the person's last wishes
When you're planning a funeral, it's easy to get lost in the details, putting your own ideas and opinions forth. But it's really important to try to be as subjective as possible, and always think about what the deceased person would have wanted.
Forgetting to ask questions
When you're grieving, it can be hard to have a clear head and think straight, so it's inevitable that you might forget to ask questions about the cremation services or funeral arrangements. Whenever a question pops into your head, write it down so that you've got a list of queries you can put across to the funeral director.
Feeling rushed
There's a lot to organise when arranging a funeral, but you should never feel rushed into making any decisions until you're happy that they're the right ones. A reputable funeral director will never rush you into making any decisions but will provide you with the range of options available to help you make the right choices for you.
Whether you require funeral directors in Manchester or elsewhere, we make sure you don't make any funeral planning mistakes at Far & Beyond Funeral Services.


Iowa made it three wins in a row with a 3-1 victory over Houston in the Stars' home opener on Thursday night… Chris Conner broke a tie midway through the third period and Dan Ellis stopped 29 shots for the win… Iowa is 19-4-0-2 in its last 25 regular-season outings.
Chicago and Milwaukee renew their fierce rivalry as they begin a 10-game season series with a home-and-home this weekend… The Wolves opened their 2006-07 campaign with a convincing 5-0 win in Peoria on Oct. 7, while the Admirals dropped a 7-1 decision to Omaha at home that same night… Darren Haydar, who scored 110 goals over the last four seasons in a Milwaukee uniform, returns to the Bradley Center on Friday as a member of the Wolves… Haydar also paced the Admirals in playoff scoring in their trips to the Calder Cup Finals in 2004 and 2006… Ramzi Abid, Chicago's leading scorer in 2005-06, now skates for Milwaukee… Alexander Radulov, a first-round draft pick in 2004 and the Canadian Major Junior Player of the Year last season, scored a goal in his pro debut for the Admirals last weekend.
Rochester has stormed out to a 2-0-0-0 start, outscoring the opposition by a 12-3 margin in those two games… The Americans face off against Binghamton in a weekend home-and-home, the 239th and 240th regular-season meetings between the cities all-time… Third-year pro Daniel Paille leads Rochester with five points on the year (1g, 4a), and the Amerks' young corps of defensemen has allowed only 20.5 shots on goal per game… The Senators split the first two games of the season, defeating Syracuse and falling to Bridgeport… Jeff Heerema scored three times in those two contests for the Sens… Grant Potulny notched seven goals in eight games against Rochester in 2005-06.
Eighteen months after they last got to cheer on their team, fans at the DCU Center welcome the Worcester Sharks onto the ice for their inaugural home opener against Portland on Saturday… The Sharks earned three of a possible four points last weekend without the benefit of ever playing with a lead, defeating Portland and falling to Manchester, both in shootouts… Rookie Dan Spang scored in the final minute of regulation against the Pirates, while Mathieu Darche did the same against the Monarchs… Joe Pavelski, an All-American at the University of Wisconsin last year, is tied for the Worcester team lead with four points… The Sharks' three-game weekend also includes a visit to Providence on Friday and a trip to Lowell on Sunday.
On Thursday night, Brian Gionta scored three times in the third period as New Jersey rallied for a 7-6 shootout win over Toronto… Ryan Whitney scored two third-period goals to help Pittsburgh past the N.Y. Rangers, 6-5… Ryan Smyth and Jonathan Cheechoo each had a natural hat trick during Edmonton's 6-4 win over San Jose… Jeff Hamilton netted the winning goal in Chicago's 3-1 win over Nashville.
162 — Consecutive AHL games played by San Antonio defenseman Bryan Helmer, now the longest active ironman streak in the league… Manitoba's Dustin Wood saw his streak end at 220 games when he sat out the Moose's opener on Oct. 4 at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.


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Nick Monacelli, Reporter
Derick Hutchinson, Senior Web Producer
Published: April 13, 2020, 6:19 pm
Tags: Shelby Township, Macomb County, Troy, Oakland County, Troy Beaumont Hospital, Local, Community, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Cases, Coronavirus Event Changes, COVID-19, Michigan Coronavirus, Coronavirus Outbreak, Coronavirus Pandemic, Coronavirus Crisis
Shelby Township hospital worker turns down chance to go home during coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis
17-year-old girl continues working at Troy Beaumont Hospital
TROY, Mich. – A teenager who works at Troy Beaumont Hospital turned down a chance to go home during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and instead, she's working as much as she can.
Isabella Johnson, 17, of Shelby Township, is hit with COVID-19′s harsh reality every day inside Troy Beaumont. She works as a nursing assistant in a small intermediate intensive care unit.
"It is absolutely crazy," Johnson said. "Every single patient we have right now in our unit -- they're all on ventilators."
Johnson is a nursing assistant thanks to a co-op program through Henry Ford II High School and Utica Community Schools.
When the pandemic began, Johnson was given the option to stay home, but she asked her boss if she could keep working.
"She was like, 'You're crazy, but if you want to keep working, we need you,'" Johnson said.
Her parents said they can't brag enough about their daughter's decision. Johnson said there wasn't even a second thought.
"Everyone is talking about, 'Do your part,'" Johnson said. "I had the option to actually help people who are sick."
Her message to others, especially teenagers: "This is real. You need to step up and stay home. This is a serious thing that's happening."
Johnson has a 4.03 GP, even with difficult AP classes.
Nick Monacelli
Nick joined the Local 4 team in February of 2015. Prior to that he spent 6 years in Sacramento covering a long list of big stories including wildfires and earthquakes. Raised in Sterling Heights, he is no stranger to the deep history and pride Detroit has to offer.
Derick Hutchinson
Derick is a Senior Web Producer for ClickOnDetroit and has been with Local 4 News since April 2013. Derick specializes in breaking news, crime and local sports.


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Q: ArcGIS Focal Statistics Returns Out-of-Bounds Result I am trying to compute a moving window maximum on a raster, such that the output is the max within a 5 mile radius.
This should result in an output grid where the maximum is equal to the maximum of the input grid.
I am using the FocalStatistics function in spatial analyst,
Here is the code:
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
from arcpy.sa import *
env.extent = "MAXOF"
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Spatial")

localMax = FocalStatistics(InRaster, NbrCircle(5, "MAP"), "MAXIMUM")

Pretty straight forward.
But if I check that stats:
    arcpy.GetRasterProperties(localMax, "MAXIMUM")
The value returned is 3.4e+38 (out to lunch), whereas:
arcpy.GetRasterProperties_management(inRaster, "MAXIMUM")

returns 5.73
I have used this function without problems before – I am out of ideas. Anyone?
edit: inRaster is projected, and the linear unit is Miles (US)

A: This works perfectly fine
import arcpy
from arcpy.sa import *
inRaster=arcpy.Raster(r'D:\Aerials\Backups\arc2mdem')
localMax = FocalStatistics(inRaster, NbrCircle(5, "MAP"), "MAXIMUM")
result=arcpy.GetRasterProperties_management(localMax, "MAXIMUM")
arcpy.AddMessage(result.getOutput(0))

The only other thing I can think of is environment extent. Does baaad things very often.
UPDATE:
tested with wrong extent, get the same "answer" 3.40282e+038

A: UPDATE
This issue seems to be related to floats. If the input raster is multiplied by 1.0 before running the focal statistics, it yields the expected results.

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