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To: Enterprise

I read where Gregg Allman shot Duane Allman in the foot with a .22 rifle so that Duane could escape the draft.

I also used to work with a guy that was drafted into the Marine Corps and went to Vietnam and on his first furlough to Saigon he walked to the airport purchased The Swissair ticket for Switzerland hopped on the plane got off the plane in Switzerland and declared himself what do whatever it is they declared themselves when they go AWOL. I guess he came back when Carter allowed draft dodgers to come back to the US with no charges pending. Good worker. I asked him why he did it and he told me because after 6 months of Marine Corps Duty in Vietnam he knew he wasn’t going to live through the next six months.


62 posted on 12/26/2018 1:55:49 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

I guess he wasn’t a draft dodger because he was on active duty. He would be listed as a deserter by the Marines, although he might have decided he was a conscientious objector when he went AWOL. Anyway, he was there in Vietnam, I wasn’t. I served stateside, so I won’t sit in judgement. Carter was President and he forgave them. Yeah, time to move on.


63 posted on 12/26/2018 3:41:43 PM PST by Enterprise
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