Reply #9: You can find numerous instances where it hasn't. [View All]

[acmejack]

A notorious example from yesteryear:
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Keith Mather of San Francisco was drafted in September 1967, and, although he knew he “didn’t want any part of the war,” he went along with the process. Shortly after beginning his advanced infantry training, he went home for the Christmas holiday, feeling “like I was walking around with a weight on my shoulders. I decided that I wasn’t going to Vietnam and the weight was lifted.”

Back at the base, Mather soon went AWOL, returning to San Francisco. He quickly became involved with the War Resisters League and with other AWOL servicemen who refused to go to Vietnam. He and nine other military resisters, representing all four branches of the military, sought public sanctuary in a church, chaining themselves to ministers of different denominations. Their action, which received significant publicity, ended with their arrests and incarceration in military prisons.

http://www.warresisters.org/nva0300-3.htm