Your comment on color blindness made me think how lucky I am to be colorblind. All male medical school grads were drafted from 1966-70 for obvious reasons (Vietnam war). I was supposed to go there to a Battalion Aid Station, which would be frontline. But I had to take a color blindness test. Fortunately I failed, and instead was sent for 2 years to Bangkok where I could get married, live with Cathy and enjoy life. All my fellow interns were sent to Vietnam and one died there.
If I had known that failing the color blindness test would have kept me out of Vietnam I would have faked it. But I didn’t need to! A lucky man to be affected by color blindness!
Your comment on color blindness made me think how lucky I am to be colorblind. All male medical school grads were drafted from 1966-70 for obvious reasons (Vietnam war). I was supposed to go there to a Battalion Aid Station, which would be frontline. But I had to take a color blindness test. Fortunately I failed, and instead was sent for 2 years to Bangkok where I could get married, live with Cathy and enjoy life. All my fellow interns were sent to Vietnam and one died there.
If I had known that failing the color blindness test would have kept me out of Vietnam I would have faked it. But I didn’t need to! A lucky man to be affected by color blindness!
Dave Anderson MD