Draft Talk Worries Generation That Hasn’t Seen One

Falls Church, Va.

Whitney Misch, a senior at Falls Church High School here, has heard the talk that the United States might reinstitute the military draft.

Although he doesn’t believe that it will happen, the mere prospect of serving in the military gives a shudder to this 17-year-old, who—clad all in black and with spiked, partially dyed hair—looks as if he’d fit better in a punk-rock band than an Army barracks.

“I don’t want to die,” he said last week. “I’d rather...