When WW3 happens, will women get drafted?

I'm thinking they will, but not in combat roles. I also believe that the feminists
will come unglued if they are, because they do not want THAT type of equality.

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badminton · 61-69, MVIP

Anyone, male or female, can become "unglued' at the horrors of war. Many soldiers who see combat get PTSD. In my childhood I was around WWII and Korean War vets. They would not talk about their war-time experiences. Many were permanently scared, in body and mind.

This is why we should prevent wars from happening in the first place.

Spoiledbrat · F

@badminton Some things are worth going to war for.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@badminton Yeah, my dad's best friend didn't do too well mentally. He and my dad
went through boot camp together, and then spent over 1 year on the front lines
in Italy. My dad was wounded twice, and got a few medals for valor, and he was a
normal guy, hardly drank at all. He did have nightmares off and on till the day he passed.

I got him to open up to me after I went in the military in the 70's. Unfortunately his
friend Mike, was never the same. People react different to traumatic things, and
a lot men feel guilt because of the things they were forced to do. My dad was forced
to use his bayonet a couple times. I believe those battles were the reason for his
nightmares, although he did experience other things that no one should ever witness.

Dad did say that he did not feel guilt for the things he did, because the Krauts were
trying to kill him and his friends. You know the old saying, "Kill, or be Killed"

I don't know if I could do it, or not. Dad was glad I went into the Air Force, and not
the Army. They only time he ever cried, was when I got on that bus to leave for
basic training.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@DogMan My dad was 4F for the war due to a serious injury just a few years prior to the war. But as he got into later 80s he moved into a senior retirement community where many residents there were war vets and talkative about their war memories, possibly because they had kept the memories buried for years and at some point it just started bubbling out.

One gentleman at my dad's lunch table put it best. "We saw and did things that we could never forget."