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pinboy3niner

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2. Being a draft dodger isn't bad

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 10:56 AM

Feb 2012

Bill Clinton was a draft dodger--while speaking out against the war.

What really sucks is the chickenhawks who avoided serving while being all for sending other mothers' sons to suffer, and bleed, and die.

Some time back, a group of us VN vets were invited to speak to a HS history class in Maryland. We arrived to see "VIETNAM" spelled out on one wall. The letters were made with 58,000 straightpins the students had spent 5 minutes each day putting in...

The teacher was a man who had resisted the draft, and refused to go when he got his notice. He served time in jail for refusing the draft.

And we Vietnam vets respected him. He was a great man, and a great teacher.

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If Romney was a Democrat, god forbid, he would be attacked as a draft dodger.... [View all] WCGreen Feb 2012 OP

Romney's Vietnam-era 'mission' work was in a French castle with servants at his beck and call... blm Feb 2012 #1

Being a draft dodger isn't bad pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #2

Well Romney had it both ways... WCGreen Feb 2012 #7

IDK Johonny Feb 2012 #3

Add Nixon vs. McGovern to your list Downwinder Feb 2012 #4

Also, many people of voting age simply were not alive during Vietnam. Jennicut Feb 2012 #5

Most people my age think that vietnam was a mistake and I graduated high school in 1975... WCGreen Feb 2012 #6

I have been attacking him for this, but you have the timing backward Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #8

It's not just the media with the double standard... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #9