[kesann]

In the sixties, during the Viet Nam era, I worked ,here in Canada, at a treatment centre for disturbed children.

We hired many child care staff who were draft dodgers, young men of good conscience who could not participate in the war. Partly because of their conscience, and partly because they desperately missed their families, these young men were some of the best child care staff we ever had. They were committed to their treatment families, and did well by them.

An off shoot is that most of them stayed in Canada..some went on to illustrious careers, as university professors,authors,etc.
It must be a terrible thing to have to worry about losing one's child to war. Even if the child(young man/woman)survives the experience, they will have seen things and had to do things that most of us cannot even imagine.