Topics Goss addresses: his involvement in the anti-war movement while attending Rutgers in the mid-1960s; his background as a native of Newark, New Jersey ; the changing demographics of Newark which included large minority and poor populations--populations that had a difficult time getting out of the draft; his efforts to get out of the draft including a brief enrollment in law school and two short-term deferments, one medical and one teaching; his decision to enroll in the Army Reserves to avoid jail time and leaving for Canada; his concern that he made the wrong decision and might be sent on active duty to Vietnam; his efforts to get discharged by breaking rules and seeing psychiatrists; his eventual discharge; reflections that he would have done anything to get out of active duty once his unit was activated.
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