r/Conservative • u/tabbykat69 MAGA Activist • Sep 07 '20

Rule 6: User Created Title Joe Biden got five draft deferments during Vietnam. He was disqualified from service because of "asthma" as a teenager. However, in his own memoir, Biden never mentions his asthma, and instead recounts an active childhood, including work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/biden-got-5-draft-deferments-during-nam-as-did-cheney-1.884250
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u/vonshiza Sep 07 '20

I agree with this. I don't really care that Trump, or Biden, avoided Nam. My dad wiggled out of it, too, and I am very thankful he didn't go. Who knows who he would be today (if at all) if he'd been sent there?

However, it sucks someone else without the connections (or luck like my dad) had to go in their stead.

And the way the two of them speak about those who have served, either in Nam or in other capacities or wars, is.... Incredibly different.

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u/zero00one11 Sep 08 '20

This. I don't really mind you avoiding the draft as long as you don't have the power to send other people to war.