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KT2000

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4. before the lottery in 1969

Reply to Thor_MN (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:27 PM

Jul 2015

young men (18+) could be drafted unless they had a deferment or 4F. Trump was 23 when the lottery was instituted. Gulf of Tonkin was in 1964 - that is when Trump was 18.

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Thank you for the correction. He received a handful of student deferments. Thor_MN Jul 2015 #3

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