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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply answering the call, and in this case many, many young men - 17, 18 years old - coming in to defend what they saw as a federal invasion of Virginia, and they fought honorably.
If there is anyone who knows what a rigged system looks like, it's Donald Trump, who was able to evade the draft during the height of the Vietnam War when the U.S. was losing on average 1,000 troops every month. That system was clearly rigged in favor of young men from politically influential families, but Donald Trump never complained about that.