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Records: Governor candidates received Vietnam War deferments
AP via Boston.com ^ | 7/13/02 | John McElhenny

Posted on 07/13/2002 3:44:10 PM PDT by GeneD

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: GeneD

"I suddenly had visions of crawling through these tunnels beneath the rice paddies with hand grenades. It was not an inviting prospect."

Too bad he was not drafted, it may have done him some good.


41 posted on 07/13/2002 7:55:20 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: CIB-173RDABN
It should be mandatory for any congressional representative to serve a military tour...no exceptions!

(USMC grunt platoon doc, 65 - 66, WIA x2.)

42 posted on 07/13/2002 8:04:13 PM PDT by NMFXSTC
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To: Kobyashi1942
And the political appeasement to them made it unwinnable....
43 posted on 07/14/2002 12:36:46 AM PDT by Bogey78O
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