[Mr Rogers]

“Is the Sheriff a draft dodger?”

I doubt it. He would have been 17 when the Korea War ended, and he might not have been drafted during peacetime. He joined the police in 1958, so he would have been 22 at the time.

[MSF BU]

Well, when he was 17 he could have joined the service, preferably a branch that would put him right up where the fight was, regardless of whether it was wartime or not. I make it a hobby to research families back through several generations to see whether the tough guys...really are.

There are plenty of families in my area who've had near constant military service with young men joining almost as a family tradition; not necessarily career men but guys who at least do something. There are plenty of families like that and they tend toward one political party. Then there are the others, who when you peel the onion you reveal a pattern of nonservice...there is always a reason not to join up in war or peace, regardless. The latter group tends to have plenty of examples from both parties...sad sacks all, and over several generations.