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To: i-node who wrote (840541)3/5/2015 1:05:08 AM
From: HPilot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573902
 
Well as his health is now, he probably didn't have to try to get a deferment.



To: i-node who wrote (840541)3/5/2015 8:29:00 AM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (9) | Respond to of 1573902
 
Kerry saw combat in Vietnam while the hawkish Cheney accepted a series of student and family-related draft deferments. Cheney's unself-consciousness about this is (or at least was) so pronounced that in 1989 he told George C. Wilson of the Washington Post, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."