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I am grateful for the opportunity to add a few words to the debate over extension of the draft. although I suspect that there is very little I can add to what has already been said about this issue by the very distinguished Senator from Oregon and by the very distinguished Senator from Mississippi. Many of our forefathers left their native lands to escape compulsory military Strategic forces ---------------------------------------Fiscal year 1972 Total service. They came to the United States to seek a freedom nearly unique in their times. Today some descendants of those immigrants to America are leaving for Canada. once again to find freedom from compulsory military service. With others who by one means or another avoid the draft they thrust the burdens of war upon those who are drafted or who volunteer. Those burdens are heavy. as Mylai and the reports of drug addiction among Americans in South Vietnam have revealed.