A lot of good Canadian boys went to Nam for a lot of reasons, good and bad. Some tried to go and got turned down; I was one of them. Some went and never came home, and my friend was one of them.
In the early 70's in the Calgary-Banff corridor the guys working construction, trucks, horses, mountain guiding, and so forth was a pretty international bunch. I met a guy who dated a gal I knew well, he had been a French para who joined the US forces when he got out and did a couple tours in Nam. He worked as a mountain guide for a while... he was the real deal. Helluva climber. Died in a fall while ice-climbing, IIRC. Not many draft-dodgers in that area in those days.
