PLEASE HELP "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"

Why does Goines say he wrote a letter to the draft board?

to protest the war

to demonstrate his love of country

to prove his political activism

to ensure he would not get drafted

to ensure he would not get drafted

Explanation:

David Lance Goines resisted getting drafted into the army during the fight against Vietnam. To achieve his aim, he employed a number of strategies. The major one he used was what he learned from Northcote C. Parkinson which was to write a letter to the forces and time their response and when a pattern was established, he would write many more letters.

Goines applied this strategy to escape being drafted into the army and eventually his file was lost.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.