I can’t stand McCain or Kerry, but I will give them this, they went when their country called. Niether of them weaseled deferment after deferment like Trump. Trump didn’t have the balls to go. At least McCain and Kerry did. Trump’s campaign is a clown car running full speed of the cliff trailing the very same Freepers behind him who trashed him during the last election.
Copies of Trump’s official paperwork with the draft board are open to all at the website called Smoking Gun. He signed up with his local board 4 days after his 18th birthday. He apparently took the four one-year student deferments to go through college but then reported to the draft board. Something was picked up during his physical so he was asked to return in 4 months which he did. He signed up then and was put in the draft pool and very luckily for him and others with higher numbers, his turned out to be 356 out of the top of 365.
Only if the war had expanded would he would have been called but he did go through the entire process and didn’t take advantage of things by say going to get a Masters which would have bought him more deferments. That was a common practice as was getting a PhD.
Kerry and McCain are heroes.
McCain is a hero for surrendering and Kerry is a hero for receiving three purple hears for suffering three horrible paper cuts.