Posted on 08/27/2004 3:46:59 AM PDT by kattracks
Here's another one, from The Dallas Morning News:July 4, 1999
"Bush's stint in Guard scrutinized":
REBUTTAL TO TODAY'S WASHINGTON POST HIT PIECE
I need to do some SERIOUS rearranging of MY FAVORITES, or I'll never find anything! Heck, I even still have articles bookmarked from 2000!
Bookmarking!
Here is some information that the "objective" media avoids telling you. John Kerry joined the Navy Reserve, he did not JOIN the Navy. The Reserve was just like the National Guard. Kerry did NOT know he would be sent to Vietnam.Well, well, well !!
Kerry himself has said that HE 'answered the call' to go to Viet Nam.
What a liar he is! (yet again!)
He looks good.......o.k. marvelous!....in ANY outfit! What's even better is what's under that hat.........just finished reading Matter of Character, which verifies that statement!
Thanks, Howlin- copied & saved. I'll use them all.
I believe that's the one that I linked in #42.
Oh ... and as for Cheney and his 5 deferments that Kerry charges.
I could be wrong and if I am .. I'm sure someone will correct me
But has anyone noticed that Cheney is OLDER then John Kerry??
The cut off age for the draft was 26 years of age .. they didn't draft you after that age and if you were married with children
When John Kerry joined the Navy Reserves in 1967 to avoid being drafted, he was 24 years old. Dick Cheney was 27 years old .. married with children
TRANSLATION .... Cheney would not have been drafted at that time
bttt!
So he would have been 18 in 1959; in 1968, he would have been 26.
I was off a year .. I thought he was born in 1940
Thanks for the correction
College students got a 2-S deferrment for 4 years.
So that would have been until 1963, right?
More:
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.
Oh, and there is this:
**The lottery drawing held July 1, 1970, determined the order in which men born in 1951 were called to report for induction into the military.
So, why didn't John Edwards enlist???
Great post.
Aug. 29, 1964: Dick and Lynne Cheney marry.
May 19, 1965: The Selective Service classifies Dick Cheney 1-A, "available immediately for military service."
July 28, 1965: President Lyndon Johnson says draft calls will be doubled.
Oct. 26, 1965: The Selective Service declares that married men without children, who were previously exempted from the draft, will now be called up. Married men with children remain exempt.
Jan. 19, 1966: The Selective Service reclassifies Dick Cheney 3-A, "deferred from military service because service would cause hardship upon his family," because his wife is pregnant with their first child.
July 28, 1966: Elizabeth Cheney is born.
Jan. 30, 1967: Dick Cheney turns 26 and therefore becomes ineligible for the draft.
I still don't see where the "five deferrments" come in.
I believe so .. but if I can recall from reading the number of drafts at that time were very low .. Johnson didn't start sending troops into vietnam till 65 and that was in low numbers
As for Edwards? .. imo .. he rec'd a deferment
But isn't the point that he COULD have enlisted at any time?
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