[navigator]

With all due respect, you are mistaken. It was a rare 19 year old male who could quit college in the middle of his freshman year and not wind up in uniform. Has nothing to do with those who had 2S deferments so they could attend school.

[Captainpaintball]

Excerpt from Paul D. Colford's The Rush Limbaugh Story pages 16-23

Rush was classified 4-F after a physical found that ehadan "inoperable pilonidal cyst" and a "football knee from high school." He was also classified as 1-Y which was then, and istoday, a "disqualifying condition" for induction. It is a congenital incomplete closure of the neural groove at the base of the spinal cord...The malady can be corrected by surgery, buy short of that is viewed by the military as a needless risk amid unsanitary conditions in the field.

Thanks for serving our country, but ditch the bitterness, please. Not everyone who didn't wade through a rice paddy and catch the clap from Ho Chi Minh hookers is a draft dodger.

[dts32041]

Funny I graduate from a High school with 13 male seniors in 1968.

I was the only one that went to Nam and I volunteered.

The next class that graduated in 69 had 20 males and only one of the went to Nam BTW he was a volunteer also.

Only 4 served in uniform.

I know anecdotal information.

But all those graduates didn't go to college some went straight to work.

So out of the 40 male graduates only two can offer their lame opinions on the use of military force, I think not.

I sometimes think military veterans are more elitist in their opinions than the most obnoxious graduate of Yale.

[Pelham]

It was a rare 19 year old male who could quit college in the middle of his freshman year and not wind up in uniform.

Maybe for those a couple of years older than Rush, but not for him- he was in one of the "draft lottery" cohorts- your likelihood of being drafted was a function of your birthdate more than anything if you were born in 1951.