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To: VanDeKoik; JoSixChip

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/politics/photos-show-trump-military-garb-dodging-draft-article-1.2298248

I did not render judgment either way. I am merely providing info instead of just spouting off. Personally, given his wealth and connections I think it highly likely that he used all legal means to avoid service.

And ultimately it will come down to the definition of “draft dodger”. I would humbly submit (only as one born during the Vietnam era, but who served 20 years later), that to the vast majority of grunts and jarheads bleeding and dying in a shitty jungle, any who used their position of privilege, even legally, did indeed dodge the draft.


54 posted on 03/06/2016 3:44:57 PM PST by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: Axeslinger
I did not render judgment either way. I am merely providing info instead of just spouting off. Personally, given his wealth and connections I think it highly likely that he used all legal means to avoid service.

Do you really not see that you are doing exactly what you are saying you are not doing all in the same paragraph?
77 posted on 03/06/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by JoSixChip (Ted Cruz (R-Goldman Sachs) - He's creepy and he's kooky, mysterious and spooky)
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To: Axeslinger

Your post:

“I think it highly likely that he used all legal means to avoid service.

1. You just said you “suspected” that he used power and wealth to avoid the draft.

2. Then the “suspected” morphed into he “did” dodge the draft.

3. Then you brought in the witness of the soldiers fighting in Viet Nam and presumed to know what was in their hearts and minds about someone who took deferments, medical passes.

4. I think any person would think that you rendered judgment.


168 posted on 03/06/2016 5:34:48 PM PST by odawg
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