[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this discussion. Now I know that according to John Kerry, I am a draft-dodger. I got my draft notice in late 1964. (There was no lottery then. You just received your notice and that was that.)

At that time, the Draft Boards did not take men who were married, and had a child. I was married, and my first child was due to be born in about two months. According to the form that came with my Draft Notice, if I supplied a copy of my marriage license and a letter from my wife's obstetrician, I would not be taken in the draft.

So, I filled out the form, including telling my Draft Board my new address in California. They did not take me. I had not known until this very moment that, according to John Kerry, I am a draft dodger.

I had one other chance to go to Vietnam. I was fluent in French, and had taken a minor in Southeast Asian politics. The US Information Agency offered me a civilian position in Saigon. It seemed a little less desirable to be in Vietnam without a weapon, than to bed there fully armed. So I declined that job offer. I suppose in Kerry-ese, that makes be a draft-dodger squared?

John Kerry was a putz when I met him in 1963. He is still a putz, today. I am gratified that his campaign is going straight down the porcelain facility.

Congressman Billybob

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[Austin Willard Wright]

Take? What law prevented Dick Cheney from *volunteering* for service?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

What terrible thing did you do that got you punished with meeting John sKerry in 1963?

[conservative in nyc]

How DARE you! You sir, are not only a DRAFT-DODGER CHICKENHAWK who received 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6.... yeah.... SIX deferments, but you have absolutely no right to call John Kerry a putz. You did NOT serve ON John Kerry's boat in Vietnam. Only those people who served ON John Kerry's boat in Vietnam can speak to his character! And even if you served on his boat, you are unfit to speak about John Kerry unless your comments are cleared with Kerry-Edwards 2004 first! Ask Steve Gardner!

How DARE you question John Kerry's patriotism!!!!!

/sarcasm

[Bob Hyneman]

yepper . . .

According to kerry's logic anyone who, in 1965-66 was married, a student, or a dad, is a draft dodger.

As I said I was born in 1966 and began kindergarten in 1972. I didn't know it at the time, but all our parents were draft dodgers.

[Howlin]

I had not known until this very moment that, according to John Kerry, I am a draft dodger.

My husband felt the same way today when I informed him!