Well if you were wondering, I am a slacker just like my grandfather was in World War I.
Why was he a slacker in WWI?
He fled to Canada to avoid the War. You have probably heard the term "draft dodger".  He did this.
So did your family grow up in Canada as a result?
describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service, equivalent to the later term "draft dodger". Attempts to track down such evaders were called "slacker raids". During World War I, U.S. Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries "to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft" had been managed properly. A "San Francisco Chronicle" headline on 7 September 1918, read, "Slacker is Doused in Barrel of Paint". The
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