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So in other words Rush is saying that people like Dick Cheney and Trent Lott and Phil Graham and Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich and Danny Hastert and maybe even Rush himself would have served if they had been forced to serve? Thanks, I feel so much better about it now.

Rush would have been 18 in 1969.....the year the draft lottery began. The others you mentioned would have been 23 or older in 1965 when the Nam draft began.....not likely candidates. I agree that Kerrey did his war effort and to my knowledge served well. And frequently this is a plus. Unfortunately, whatever wisdom he acquired from that honourable service has not translated to his politics....in my view.

Rush's number, picked in the 1970 lottery, was 152. I don't know if this was high enough not to be called (mine, also picked that year was higher). The previous year they took as high as 195 but they also drafted significantly more men.

At that time, 1970, most of us took the que sera sera attitude. If called, go, if not, leave it alone. We all knew enough returnees to know that it was nothing but a cluster****, certainly not an issue worth dying for, not in the 70s.