Most likely they'd caught that problem at a pre-induction physical and you'd never seen him again ~ not even for a deferment.
Frankly, I hated it when a couple of the inductees who came in when I did just flopped over dead out running around the track in the morning before breakfast. That sort of thing is just a big downer.
No, I didn't trip over their bodies ~ but others did.
While an induction medical may have caught something, he didn’t even try. And i don’t even fault guys who did anything they could to avoid the draft.
What i despise are the ones who do that, and THEN try to act like a national security hawk. I have more respect for someone who went to Canada than i do him. At least the hippy in Canada didn’t come back and claim to be a foreign policy tough guy. He is another long term political hack from the Nixon/Ford era. Like Mclame. Like all the Bush clan.
“Frankly, I hated it when a couple of the inductees who came in when I did just flopped over dead out running around the track in the morning before breakfast. That sort of thing is just a big downer.
No, I didn’t trip over their bodies ~ but others did.”
Had a guy do that in front of me (fortunately just heat prostration). I just sprung off his back and kept going.