Top of the Pile
I have been a Netflix subscriber for years and years and this has to be the best documentary I have ever seen. It is so thoughtful and through, and honest.
I remember sitting in the high school auditorium with all the other male seniors to sign up for the Selective Service in 1972. The representative where really honest with us. It was during the time when the draft was based on the lottery system. They told us if your number was 100 or less, you would be drafted, if it was about 100, no worries. Mine was in 343.
I had to possibility of participating in history, but too dimwitted to understand what it meant.
Now I know, and the knowing makes me feel ashamed for our country.
Best line in the documentary is "We are the United States of Amnesia". Ain't it so, all you can do is weep.
This is a must watch, even for people that do not live in this country.
I remember sitting in the high school auditorium with all the other male seniors to sign up for the Selective Service in 1972. The representative where really honest with us. It was during the time when the draft was based on the lottery system. They told us if your number was 100 or less, you would be drafted, if it was about 100, no worries. Mine was in 343.
I had to possibility of participating in history, but too dimwitted to understand what it meant.
Now I know, and the knowing makes me feel ashamed for our country.
Best line in the documentary is "We are the United States of Amnesia". Ain't it so, all you can do is weep.
This is a must watch, even for people that do not live in this country.
- d-papadakis
- May 13, 2025