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A paper which considers the moral and ethical issues surrounding conscription, with specific reference to the Vietnam draft, and the way that these issues are addressed in O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried. Bibliography lists 7 sources
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draft as depicted in the novel source you requested, "The Things They Carried". The New York Times article is from the review section of the newspaper and does not
have a volume number. It is, however, cited according to the exact date of publication. The publication date for "The Things They Carried" is accurate. This is the
Broadway edition of the novel, published in 1998. You can, of course, amend this citation in your OWN paper if you are working from a different edition.
The issue of the draft is a complex one, both from the point of view of personal freedom and with respect
to the well-being of society as a whole. One could argue, for example, that in an "ideal world", a draft would be unnecessary since there would always be sufficient individuals
who saw it as their personal duty to fight for their country, and there would be no need to use force or coercion to make them do so.
However, in realistic and pragmatic terms, this is generally not the case. Certainly, there is always a sector of society which sees its role
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding that should there be war, their lives may well
be forfeit. On the other hand, the very fact that an enforced draft is so often required, when conflict does in fact occur, demonstrates that there is also a sizable
number of eligible individuals who do not, for one reason or another, wish to volunteer. For some, it is reasonable to suppose that simple cowardice is the reason; for others,
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