"The community draft boards that became notorious for
sending reluctant young men off to Vietnam have
languished since the early 1970s, their membership
ebbing and their purpose all but lost when the draft
was ended. But a few weeks ago, on an obscure federal
Web site devoted to the war on terrorism, the Bush
administration quietly began a public campaign to
bring the draft boards back to life. 'Serve Your
Community and the Nation,' the announcement urges. ...
Local draft board volunteers, meanwhile, report that
at training sessions last summer, they were
unexpectedly asked to recommend people to fill some of
the estimated 16 percent of board seats that are
vacant nationwide."
—Salon.com, November 3, 2003