never heard of him, but f-em...f em...he is a celebrated draft dodger
Coward.
never heard of him, but f-em...I don’t recall ever hearing the name.
Good riddance to a no talent jerk. The only reason his name is known is his anti American views
But the idea of telling the boy next door that he has any sort of a patriotic duty to go into harms way over some damned stupid geopolitical game which doesn't even rate a declaration of war is heinous; they got away with it one final time in Korea and then it blew up in their faces in the late 60s with Nam, which is why we now have an all-volunteer military. Necessary is some sort of a constitutional amendment or law stating a minimal set of circumstances under which draftees could ever be used in combat and a bare minimum should be a full declaration of war and a full commitment to destroy some adversary. Minus that, you've got no business using draftees in combat.
Dear Jesse
Thank you for your lifelong support of the NVA
Nuyggen Vo Giap
Moved to Canada at age15, to dodge a future draft?
Never heard of him thankfully. A real man would have at least gone to jail instead of fleeing. 40,000 Canadians fought in Vietnam as volunteers.
Don’t bury this gutless puke in the USA; he turned his back on this country. Bury him in China or Russia.
Well, he’s good and dead now.
I’m a Vietnam veteran and, praise God, I’m still alive.
Thanks for putting this in. A little obscure; but I still break out my favorite of his, and maybe some of our friends in the northerly climes can give a witness:
“I was tunin’ in the six o’clock newscast
When the weatherman mentioned ‘snow’;
As soon as I heard that four-letter word
I was makin’ my plans to go.
If I were a bird I could fly back south,
And then maybe I could go to sleep.
Anything rather than hang around here
When the snow starts gettin’ deep.
Well now you know what they say about snowflakes,
How there ain’t no two the same.
Ah, but all them flakes look alike to me,
Every one is a dirty shame.
My ears are cold, my feet are cold,
Bermuda stays on my mind;
And I’m here to say that if winter comes,
The spring can’t be far behind.
Etc
Cute song. I liked that one, and still belt it out sometimes.
“Mitt Romney Faces New Scrutiny Over Vietnam War-Era Draft Deferments”
Romney was a draft evader and spent a lot of his draft avoidance living in France, while his dad ran to be President and lead us in the Vietnam war, Romney was on a Church issued deferment, only available to Mormon white men.
Mitt’s father, who was running against Reagan and Nixon, dropped out after claiming to have been “brainwashed” by the American military.
Didn’t Jimmy Carter drop the prosecution of draft dodgers?
Why didn’t he run away to Castro’s paradise in Cuba?
Sympathies to his family and friends.
Jesse Winchester is one of those people that you hear what a great musician and songwriter he was, from other musicians. However, when I searched for “Jesse Winchester songs” a few minutes ago, the list that came up included only two or three I recognized (recorded by Jimmy Buffett), and only one I kind of liked.
He is/was a great songwriter though. Jimmy Buffett does a lot of his stuff.