A reminder on Senator Blumenthal

[Glenn E. Meyer]

It's one thing to avoid a draft... it is another to avoid the draft, and then claim decades later that you fought in the war.

Agree with that

[blues]

I'd use the term VN Era Vet to avoid misunderstandings.

I was a Vietnam era draft lottery winner...pulled a 317 and continued about my business. That was the final draft call for that "conflict".

[LittleLebowski]

I really don’t understand why that is so hard for people to understand.....

Is the science of rockets.

[Bart Carter]

I was a Vietnam era draft lottery winner...pulled a 317 and continued about my business. That was the final draft call for that "conflict".

And I was in the last group to be drafted before the lottery. I guess timing is everything.

[KellyinAvon]

Why doesn't this bag of shit get "Da Nang Dick!!" yelled at him everywhere he goes? Never claim anything you didn't earn. Be humble about the things you did earn.

[DDTSGM]

I was a Vietnam era draft lottery winner...pulled a 317 and continued about my business. That was the final draft call for that "conflict".

I got a draft deferment by enlisting.