Posted on 04/30/2011 6:36:30 PM PDT by ColdOne
After taking credit for President Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate to quell doubts about his citizenship, real estate developer Donald Trump may have to release his own records to address questions about his past.
Donald Trump, who claimed this week that a high draft number kept him from fighting for his country in Vietnam, actually received a series of student deferments while in college and a medical deferment after graduation, according to Selective Service records.
The Smoking Gun first reported the revelation after obtaining the paperwork from the National Archives and Records Administration. But it's still not known what medical problem Trump had or whether he still has it.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
That’s just fugly...there’s no reason to post that. (;-)
See post 94, there comes a time in a man’s life that he is glad that he served, by the time a man is 40 or 50 and successful or not, he comes to realize that he wishes that he could be a part of the veterans talk at the parties, and share in that manly camaraderie that is impossible to make up once the age window passes.
I hope it works out and I am sure it will.
Yeah, Biden deferred his way through the 60s. I think he kept claiming his brain was missing.
It did work out, he pulled his hitch (years ago) and now is an artist in New York city, it didn’t take him long at all to be glad to have that past as a part of his makeup that will be part of him forever.
LOL, a lot of these guys don't know that Marines drafted during Vietnam (everybody drafted during WWII).
Well I am tickled pink for him as I am for all artists in New York. My daughter is in New York and is going to Poly getting an Engineering degree.
My make up is fine and so are the kids I raised without being a member of Carter’s military.
You are absolutely right. I am so glad to have had the experience. And I did end up with Army service, too, after all.
In my little high school class of 16 boys, some weren’t qualified, some didn’t serve for whatever reason, most of us served (and survived!) and one went to Canada and still lives there.
Thank you for your patriotism and service to our nation.
You are quite welcome.
NO YOU don't...
but the question was..
I was a lil sick one time too..but I was...Ahhh never mind)
The guys that I feel most sorry for are the ones that tried to get in and couldn’t, I was terrified that a medical problem would keep me out but it didn’t.
It breaks my heart when I see patriots here that tried to enlist and had something medical bar them, I consider them part of the veterans club, and I always have, I like to hear their stories.
Not everybody who served or was drafted “fought in Viet Nam”.
Nobody wanted to be drafted, big whoop. A free country does not draft.The courts also used the military as a sentence. Some courts would excuse a criminal sentence for enlisting instead.
BTW, I was drafted, served in Viet Nam and don't regret a day of it.
I believe in defending this country. However, I also believe the VietNam war was wrong on so many levels. There was no threat to our nation. Men were drafted into service, they didn’t go voluntarily. That war was so unpopular, and even though we were in it, weren’t allowed to be the victors.
I guess I don’t have a problem with anyone who chose not to go. If it had been the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I would have a different take on it.
That is another weird thing they do, even Michael Medved explains away not serving his country, as “not wanting to fight the Vietnam war”, as though the 14 year window of his enlistment eligibility was not about pulling a hitch in the service, but instead, unfortunately happened in some unique window in the American experience where cowardice, or lack of patriotism, or martial spirit was to be expected, respected, and honored.
No wonder these people revile the veterans of their time period. (I know, they all dropped that in the last decade or so, just not very convincingly).
See post 49, Vietnam was the war of volunteers.
THE VIETNAM LOTTERIES
A lottery drawing - the first since 1942 - was held on December 1, 1969, at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. This event determined the order of call for induction during calendar year 1970; that is, for registrants born between January 1, 1944, and December 31, 1950. Reinstitution of the lottery was a change from the “draft the oldest man first” method, which had been the determining method for deciding order of call.
There were 366 blue plastic capsules containing birth dates placed in a large glass container and drawn by hand to assign order-of-call numbers to all men within the 18-26 age range specified in Selective Service law.
With radio, film, and TV coverage, the capsules were drawn from the container, opened, and the dates inside posted in order. The first capsule - drawn by Congressman Alexander Pirnie (R-NY) of the House Armed Services Committee - contained the date September 14, so all men born on September 14 in any year between 1944 and 1950 were assigned lottery number 1. The drawing continued until all days of the year had been paired with sequence numbers.
end snip
The following lottery in 1970 would have been for births in 1951 and so for 1972, etc.
Trump most likely had college deferments for his school years which expired sometime after he graduated. Then he had to make the list as it went to oldest available first each month. It appears his medical deferment came after his graduation in ‘68. just a guess on my part.
smoking gun has trumps info, it is posted on a lot of the threads the last few days.
That might explain your disdain for military service, the military is not Carter's, or Reagan's, or Hoover's, or Obama's
I only served while Nixon and Reagan were in the White House but I never thought of that coincidence, the way that you do, (I admit that Reagan was not a coincidence).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.