“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur”
Leftist narrative. Fails to take into account ROTC, OCS, and men who enlisted. Also fails to count men who claimed to be drug addicts and homosexuals to dodge the draft, and men who deliberately got themselves kicked out to dodge combat.
“That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
We didn’t ask every American to serve, dumb ass. That’s what draft boards were about—selective service.
Indeed, ignores the vast majority of Marines that were there as 100% volunteers.