Unlike the hordes of young men who sought refuge in the nation's universities in order to escape the draft, Oliver Stone dropped out of Yale and enlisted to serve in Vietnam.
Of course, in turmoil of war, the young of wholesome of limbs possibly is sent to the battlefield. The disable and old man; however, are not conscripted.
The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the young and fair maidens, of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill.
Too often the cost of being young is going from on extreme to the opposite, but the wisdom of our for-fathers tells us that: things will turn into the opposite when they reach the extreme.