I must be close to your age, and I know exactly what you're talking about!
And we both now that John Kerry got FOUR DEFERMENTS while he was in college, and asked for the FIFTH one, was turned down, and enlisted in the Naval RESERVE so he wouldn't be drafted into the Army!
That deferment info is choice. Thanks.
Well, when they say Cheney got five deferments, according to the Washington Post, that's what he got: four 2-Ss and then the deferment for the child.
So Kerry got the same damn thing!
Exactly my case too. With the huge baby boom population crowding into what college had room, it was a hard thing finding a college that would accept your application. Once in college, the competition for that grade to keep you in college was stiff.
Back then, you had to work very hard for those college deferments and a college degree. Also in those days, a fifty page term paper had to be turned out on a Royal Typewriter. If you made too many mistakes, you typed the page over. And, it made no difference what class it was, you had to write a term paper.