This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter . High school graduation kicked off my summer in 1970. I lived in a semirural small Midwestern town in Michigan. I couldn't afford college; classmates were turning to factory work, which held no interest for me. The specter of the draft was always present. My uncle was in the Air Force , and he had some great stories. So, what the