I understand your view, but there over 54,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians killed in Southeast Asia. Not all of them had the financial influence to receive a 4-F deferment. Marching against the war like Sanders or the Clintons, act of treason like Jane Fonda are to me no different than buying a 4-F deferment.
For me the $20 Trillion National Debt and tens of billions of unfunded liabilities is a great threat to our future and I don't trust career politicians and the establishment to solve those problems. They have not to date. Paul Ryan is a huge disappointment. If that is the best we can do, we are pretty much dead as a world power.
Except the FACT that you have NO PROOF he BOUGHT an 4-F Deferment. Speculation is so speculative, don’t you think?
Dan Rather said G.W. Bush didn’t fulfill his Air National Guard Duty and his Daddy got him there to keep him out of Vietnam, yet he had no evidence to prove those allegations either.
My Lottery Number was 207. Two of my Friends were #1 and #3.
They joined the Air Force. Are they Draft Dodgers?
Unlike the character in No Time For Sergeants, they had no interest serving in the Infantry. Some would think they got out of something even though they served.
There are a whole lot of things that happened back then. I am in no way defending anyone here, just saying that throwing out allegations without any proof does not help your argument. Fake but Accurate doesn’t fly here.
Look I know you only know about Viet Nam by what your daddy told you. My draft lottery number was 213 which was so high I would never have been called. You have no idea what it was like back then. I will never forget, while we were still in high school, the short conversation in a good friend's driveway about what we would do if it came down to it.
A couple of years later I was married and laid off from my job so I enlisted. You are still far to young to say an act of treason like Jane Fonda's is no different than so called "buying" a 4-F deferment. Not even close.