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One thing's sure, Bill Clinton dodged the draft and it's laws, also failed to report
to the selective service board.
Hid in Canada during the war
 
http://time.com/3378546/vietnam-draft/
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Bill Clinton bombed Serbia, a predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian country, on the very day that Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter; killing thousands of innocent civilians. Please don't let him back in the white house.
 
https://www.christianforums.co...g-of-serbia.6190442/
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Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health.

He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.

But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.

The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.

The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.

His experience during the era is drawing new scrutiny after the Muslim American parents of a soldier who was killed in Iraq publicly questioned whether Mr. Trump had ever sacrificed for his country. In an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, the soldier’s father, Khizr Khan, directly addressed Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, saying, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

Mr. Trump’s public statements about his draft experience sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records, and he is often hazy in recalling details.

“I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...mp-draft-record.html

 

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When, I read the draft dodging charge, I know the person posting is either a left wing demagogue or someone ignorant of the draft.

I received a deferment for college.  Then, volunteered after I graduated.  All volunteers and potential draftees had to report to Defense Reception Stations for medical exams.  Our group included a blind man, who had to go thru the exam until he reached the vision test and was deferred as 4F.  A letter from a doctor would grant someone a special exam from a doctor, but not a physical deferment.  Only the examining physician could do so.  Trump got his deferment from a doctor at the Reception Station -- either a military doctor or a civilian under contract.  I was classified as 1A and was sworn in.  About 12 months later I went to Nam.  However, if the doc had found something wrong, I wouldn't have argued with him. I'd have taken the next Greyhound out of Birmingham home, instead of Ft. Polk.

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