In a diary he kept in 1966, the Harvard undergraduate Steven Kelman recorded the misgivings of a friend, who had said: I’m against the war, I guess, but I wouldn’t want to fight in any war. . . . My brother had a friend who tried to get a four-F by eating a lot of sugar two days before he went for his physical and not pissing—so they’d think he had diabetes. They gave him the four-F, but that afternoon he fell into a sugar coma and died. . . . I could try freaking out—you know, coming in high on pot or doing the homo routine. But they put that kind of rejection on your record, and that can
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