[jpsb]

This is a not a story, nobody wanted to gp to Vietnam, including me. The pwerful used the national guard others used medical and college deferments to avoid their duty. It was a very common practice. Bush's path to avoiding the war was more honorable then alot of elites. Look at Al Gore, he served but with an escort to keep him ut of harms way!

I wasn't so lucky or so well connected so I joined the Marine Corp, like my older brother before me. I Figured if was going to Vietnam may as well go the the best!

[WorkingClassFilth]

I realize the things you say, but my concern is for the ability, at the grassroot level, to provide explanation and evidence of an honorable record. Make no mistake, if ketchup boy makes the cut, whatever boring recitations of his service record we suffer through now will only become worse. The entire hope of the RAT's is to field somebody that doesn't have the military-hating, draft-dodging, treasonous, socialist, traitor credentials of most RAT's written all over him. Mr. F'ing is the great white hope since he, at the least, has a service record. His other qualities can be manufactured at will by the sympathetic press.

[ASA Vet]

This is a not a story, nobody wanted to gp (sic) to Vietnam, including me

I must be a "nobody." I volunteered for Nam.