I think it’s more courageous to go to Canada because trading your freedom for bullets isn’t the best way to start off adulthood. Worrying about what others think during a situation like that could easily get one to give up their life for a war that they aren’t involved in. another problem with accepting the draft is that most people who survive wars come out with intense mental and physical disabilities and they don’t get much from the government nor the army. In an interview, Tim O’Brien was asked if he still regretted joining the army. He responded with “you can go in the army, or you can go to Canada. I never actually made that drive and went to the rainy river. That’s invented. But it did happen in my head all summer long. I thought about driving to Canada.” In his story, “Where Have You, Gone Charming Billy”, he writes about a frightened young soldier who just got onto the battlefield. The soldier, Private First Class Paul Berlin, talked a lot about being frightened of what’s to come. Throughout the story, he ponders on and on about the thoughts of his father as a sense of protection. The way he kept going was by imagining safety as he reached the sea. He drove it into his mind like a drill bit, carving its way into into his skull that it was his only chance of surviving, though when he finally got to the sea, he realized that no one could keep him safe but himself. I can’t imagine having to succumb to the talons of the bandwagon, just to be eaten up and spit right back out by the predators of the jungle, be it bug, beast, or man.