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Dick Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and educated at the University of Wyoming and the University of Wisconsin. His first government position was as special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, in 1969 and 1970. He next served as a White House staff assistant in 1970 and 1971 and as assistant director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971 to 1973 before briefly returning to private life. In 1974 Cheney returned to government service as deputy assistant to President Gerald Ford. Cheney became deputy White House chief of staff and then served as chief of staff from 1975 to 1977.

This is too easy. Cheney served his country in other ways - with public service. In 1959, Cheney is 18 and goes to college. Four years later, he graduates at the age of 22 in 1963. In 1963, Vietnam was barely on anyones radar. Four years later in 1967, by the time it starts getting really dicey, he is 26 with a wife and child, and probably already working somewhere. How many 26 year olds with a wife and child chucked it all to serve in the military? Two years later - age 28 - he starts government service under Rumsfeld. He served his country during wartime several times - by being in the government and helping to form policy concerning the war!

I'm not saying Cheney did a thing wrong or that any accusations that the dems will raise will even make headlines.... They raised them in 2000 along with the President Guard duty and they didn't work.

Cheney didn't graduate in four years... He started at Yale and basically flunked out after two years.... Came back to Casper got a job as a lineman and finally reentered college and graduated in 1965....... During that time he had student deferments which most had that were around during that period and attending college or a deferment as a registrant with a child.... Nothing wrong with that...

The thing they will try again is the same thing from 2000 which is a statement he supposedly made..... It didn't fly then and won't this time either, imo. But the point of this article is they will bring it up most likely as a diversionary tactic just to see what sticks.... But Kerry will have to have a clean VP candidate if they do.

..........“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service,” Cheney told a reporter in 1989, according to the Washington Post. However, in his Senate confirmation hearing, Cheney said he “would have been obviously happy to serve had I been called.”.......