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To: dfwgator; dsc

Now I’m confused. He’s(dsc) stumping for Trump and then states: “Not only should military service be a prerequisite for office, including bureaucracies, it should be the only way to earn the franchise.”

Trump needs to do more to call attention to his courageous service under fire then. I was unaware he served.

Oh wait: Trump came of age for the draft during the Vietnam War. In an interview in 2011 on New York station WNYW,[26] he stated, “I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number.”[27] Selective Service records retrieved by The Smoking Gun from NARA records show that, although Trump did eventually receive a high selective service lottery number, he was not drafted earlier because of his student deferments (2-S) while attending college, and after receiving a medical deferment (1-Y, later converted to 4-F) prior to the lottery being initiated.[28]

He “actually got lucky”. Not because dad had money or connections or anything.


201 posted on 08/10/2015 12:09:14 PM PDT by saleman (?)
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To: saleman

My dad and 3 of his brothers pooled their money to send the youngest brother to college during the draft.

Does that make them cowards?

They weren’t hippy war protestors but funnily enough didn’t think youngest brother should be cannon fodder for...what exactly did we accomplish in vietnam?


207 posted on 08/10/2015 12:26:43 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: saleman

“Now I’m confused.”

Oh, yes indeed you are. More than you know.

“He’s(dsc) stumping for Trump”

No I’m not. I’m stumping for the truth. If you bothered to read my posts, or even ask me, you’d have discovered that I don’t trust Trump. I mentioned the film “Elmer Gantry.” However, I am offended by the people running around here telling lies about both Trump and his supporters. If you want to persuade people that Trump is the wrong man, then use the *truth* to persuade. Especially here.

“Trump needs to do more to call attention to his courageous service under fire then. I was unaware he served.”

Quite so. He *should* not be eligible. However, he is.

“He “actually got lucky”. Not because dad had money or connections or anything.”

Were you there? You sound like “BlackLivesMatter” when you start blathering about people buying their way out of the military. Draft boards came from the same communities as draftees. That visibility ruled out, for the most part, the sort of corruption you assume to have been common. The son of the wealthy chairman of the Oklahoma University Medical School Admissions Committee went to Viet Nam as a LRRP. I’m sure that thousands on FR have similar stories.

Blacks were in infantry units in numbers lower than their distribution in the population. They were also wounded and killed in lower numbers than one would expect.

What you just told me is that Trump applied for and got the same deferments that were available to everyone. Then, when they drew the numbers, he got lucky. Big deal. I’ve seen worse behavior on this thread.


223 posted on 08/10/2015 12:54:11 PM PDT by dsc (quired.)
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