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A House Armed Service Committee (HASC) hearing on May 19th heard from witnesses on only one side of the debate over whether to end draft registration or extend it to young women as well as young men. But despite the one-sided panel of witnesses, questions and comments from members of Congress highlighted the failure of the ongoing attempt to get men to register for a future military draft, and the lack of any feasible way to enforce a future military draft of men or women.
The Chair of the Armed Service Committee, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), opened the hearing by noting a written statement submitted by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR). Rep. DeFazio is one of the initial co-sponsors of the bipartisan Selective Service Repeal Act of 2021 (H.R. 2509 and S. 1139), which is pending in the Armed Services Committees in both the House and the Senate.
Questions raised about including women in military draft registration
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The Supreme Court Should End Male-Only Selective Service Registration
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The opinion piece by Mike Hulett, Times that try men s souls, in the Forum on May 8 got me thinking how my father, Wendell a supporter of the (then) Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party would have reacted to Hulett s fact-referenced description of how our current president has disparaged our country in the eyes of our domestic inhabitants and internationally as well. Wendell would have said, like I heard him say so many times before, This country may not be perfect in every way, but we work to make things better, and I m proud to have fought for world freedom.
That described his opinion in having served in the U.S Navy during World War II. During the war, he almost died of having contracted severe scarlet fever that left him with a permanent disability. But he never really complained. He prided himself in being an small-scale American farmer, supporting his family with hard work and helping to nutritionally sustain a nation, and even world. These continued to be his sentimen