Robert’s musings for a Sunday afternoon
Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s Stochastic Thoughts for a Sunday afternoon:
Christian Roots of School Voucher Movement Still Pretty Obvious
…. those of us who are over the age of 40 and have three-digit IQs remember where this all started: with segregated Christian schools in the South who were denied tax-exempt status in the 70s. This was one of the formative protest issues for the Christian right, and led directly to their campaigns for state and federally funded vouchers for parents who sent their kids to Christian academies.
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From Chance of redemption
Needed: Clever Economists to Study Benefits of Marrying Early
Which is better, getting married early or getting married late? Beats me.
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This is just begging for one of those clever natural experiments so beloved of economists these days. … Where’s freakonomics when you need it?
from the Wiki on “selective service”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_service
President Kennedy set up Executive Order 11119 (signed on September 10, 1963), granting an exemption from conscription for married men between the ages of 19 and 26. President Johnson later rescinded the exemption for married men without children by Executive Order11241 (signed on August 26, 1965 and going into effect on midnight of that date).
There is going to be an effect of turning 18 in 64 not 63 or 65. Not such a huge deal since the chance of getting sent to Vietman in 63 and 64 was zero, but I’m glad I wasn’t a fly on the wall Midnight August 26 1965 when guys told their fiancees they weren’t getting married.
“Not such a huge deal since the chance of getting sent to Vietman in 63 and 64 was zero,….”
Are you sure of those dates? Granted that ’63-’64 is early in the SE Asia adventure, but I recollect that some friends went and didn’t return at just about that time.
I think in ’63 we were still in the “advisers” stage, but “advisers” did end up in body bags.
Full on combat units, maybe late ’64 and through ’65.
The key word is “sent”. I know US soldiers went and, by the time Kennedy died 70 had died in Vietnam. But they had some choice at some time in the matter.
I don’t think draftees were sent to Vietnam before 1965. I don’t really know this, but I’m pretty sure the advisors volunteered at some stage (maybe not to go to Vietnam but for the Special Forces. No one makes you wear a green beret.
I’m pretty sure that in 63 and 64 young men didn’t face the choice between the altar, the jungle and Canada yet.
Vietnam had the highest percentage of volunteers fighting in it of any twentieth century war fought with a draft, higher than WWI, WWII or the Korean War. Desert Storm was all volunteer of course.
A Vietnam veteran and a volunteer