If you were a Mayberry RFD fan, and your number was pulled, I have to imagine this was the worst night ever.

Though my father was pulled this night, you made me laugh at the darkness.

Don't worry, I'd never heard of Mayberry RFD before.

It was a spinoff of the Andy Griffith show.

what an entirely strange and entirely modern 1st world juxtaposition.

Fixed.

Of course it's not like being "racist" against late-month birthdays is that big a deal. It would have been just as fair if they'd gone in purely sequential order.

Perhaps. Or are certain segments of the population more likely to have babies at certain times in the year, due to cultural, geographic, or some other reasons? I don't know the answer to this, but it must be considered.

I don't know if its that sinister. That sounds like an ungodly amount of data to have to process, cross check, process again just to target a certain class or race and exclude others.

Yeah and racists would NEVER go through a lot of time and trouble just to make sure young people of a class or race they hated would be more likely to die in an unpopular war. Lucky for poor blacks and other minorities, it was mostly them to die in the war! O

Oh crap.

Uh, Camonk, they had those mechanisms. They were called "Draft deferments." Not a lot of time and trouble involved at all, really.

Everyone knows that Jews and niggers have long crazy names that weigh more on paper than pure Aryan names. This allows them to be sifted out for easier genocide.

GOOGLE RON PAUL!

I have nothing to add but LOL for that comment.

Then it's off to war we go. Joy of joys!

Imagine if they had to unwrap and eat all the chocolate off of those capsules on air.

"Mmm, mmmm. Man, this is great chocolate. This is the best draft ever. Mmmm..."

"Phil! Open the capsule already!"

"Oh, oh yeah! Uh... August 3rd! 2-6-1!"