[jwalsh07]

Trump has never galloped into any battle. He was a draft dodger which these days will accrue to his favor of course.

[xzins]

Selective Service records retrieved by The Smoking Gun website from the National Archives show that, although Trump did eventually receive a high selective service lottery number, he was not drafted earlier because of his student deferments (2-S) while attending college, and after receiving a medical deferment (1-Y, later converted to 4-F) prior to the lottery being initiated.[32]

My uncle, virtually the same age as me, died in 68 in the Tet Offensive. Mom was one of the older of many children, and my uncle was the youngest. I remember fishing, playing tackle football on a pile of sugar cane stalks, and an infamous snipe hunt where I was left holding the bag. Wonderful young man, a product of the deep Appalachian south, an accent that wouldn't quit, and a chaw of tobacco from 13 years on. He was Huck Finn in many ways to me.

I wish he'd had a student deferment.

The US people had already started agitating to end the war, and Nixon won partly based on getting us out of Vietnam. Those long years of battlefield losses and no effort to win marked my beliefs about war that have remained solid to this day.

It's immoral to put troops in harm's way when the leadership has little interest in winning.

I don't resent those who found a way out. It was rational from 1968 until the end. Many in my basic unit in 1970 were using the national guard as the equivalent of a student deferment. How do I know? We talked about it.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Trump has never galloped into any battle. He was a draft dodger which these days will accrue to his favor of course.
................... BFD, I had a unit of Draft Dodgers after I left the active service. (yeah, yeah, they volunteered, but if we got called up, we’d have to send out search parties to find them.)

[entropy12]

Buy your self a good dictionary and look up the meaning of draft dodger. Making false statements will not enhance your reputation.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Trump was a draft dodger...”
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I joined the National Guard in 1971 so I could finish college and not get drafted.
Does that make me a draft dodger, too?
If you answer “yes”, then you can kiss my lily white ass.

[CodeToad]

” He was a draft dodger which these days will accrue to his favor of course.”

He was not. A “Draft dodger” was someone who fled to Canada or simply did not comply with the law. Trump complied perfectly with the law. He received deferments based on college as many people did.