Is there someone in Michael Medved’s family who served? I tend to doubt that there is, unless we count his own assistance to Hanoi’s antiwar influence operation.
I think he makes a big deal of his father, who was probably drafted for WWII, having a WWII family member seems to work for a lot of people like Medved, who dodged the draft or never served.
Medved covered himself for years on the radio by also using his son, first Medved would say he didn’t want to serve in Vietnam (when the actual question was, why didn’t you ever enlist?), and then he would glide into talking about his son wanting to be a Marine, and making it sound like that covered everything, well his son didn’t ever enlist as far as I can tell.
By the way WWII didn’t snag any men in Romney’s direct male line, none of them ever served during the family’s entire 172 year history in America, none, ever, no draft, no war, no patriotism, no anything, ever snagged one of his line of males, including his five sons as he ran for president for 6 years, during war time, just as his dad before him ran to be a wartime president while Mitt was evading the draft, of course Mitt’s dad never served either.