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Thor_MN

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1. I'm not a Trump fan, but I read his draft number was 356.

Reply to 6chars (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:06 PM

Jul 2015

If that's true, one really can't say he avoided the draft (with the implication that he did something), he just got lucky.

OTOH, a certain JE Bush had a draft number of 26, but somehow, he did not serve.

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