Many of Terrys classmates in highschool were drafted and served and died in Viet Nam while Terry used a deferment to play football. I would like to know how many people feel this was fair. i know the liberals Slick Willie Clinton dodged it too but that does not make it right. Show of hands?
2007-12-17 11:12:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
KB: the question was not how you felt about the war but how those felt who dodged the draft regardless as to going to Canada, College deferment, or daddy was Senator with pull. I was drafted in 68 and served as a infantryman with the 101st Airborne Divison and was at hamburger hill (Dong Ap Bia) and many of those we place in body bags from this battle did not want to be there either but they followed the law. These young men were not war mongers but just kids only years before playing with toy trains. They had moms and dads who loved them and opened Christimas presents and could still remember the smile from their first grade photo missing a tooth. The question i asked was do people who avoided the draft feel any guilt knowing that someone may have died in their place? We do all make choices in life and i am so thankful I had the guts to go and survived to talk about it.
2007-12-17 12:05:40 · update #1
Okay so we had Rock Bleier and thats fine but do think that makes up for the 59,919 who were not pro football players and died in Viet Nam. I think some of you sports folks are worshiping the wrong crowd.
2007-12-17 12:08:12 · update #2
asailors: its not nice to ridicule the souls of 59,916 young men who died in Viet Nam for your freedom. I hope they will haunt you for the rest of your life. Many of those who kia were my friends and were decent kind boys.
2007-12-17 12:13:57 · update #3
William B: Cassius Clay was one of the worst excuse for a draft dodger since he badmouthed his country but like the green cash he got for punching someone senseless but did not like violence, yea right.
2007-12-17 12:15:37 · update #4
desertvi: I do not necessarily believe that pro athletes should have been excluded because of football injuries. It was okay for Bradshaw and other to smash each other every sunday making millions but the 59,916 who died in Viet Nam could not claim shin splints or the rare disease you described. There were other duties in the military they could have performed that would not requireing humping a rucksack through the jungles but they did not even have he guts nor time to do this.
2007-12-18 05:18:08 · update #5
is Mohammad Ali? he was a draft dodger too
2007-12-17 11:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by Dont get Infected 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i do not know if he used a deferment or not-at the time he would have drafted the college deferment was out there for any one going to college. Would have he been drafted is another question; only 8% of those eligible to be drafted were-in short his number might not have come up. To me a draft dodger is some one who's number came up and the used illegal means to not be drafted-left the country or used a deferemnt and then when his number didn't get selected he got out of the reason for deferment, this is what former President Clinton did.. Just because ome one was alive at the time and did not get drafted does not mean they dodged the draft. I would go with Rocky Blier on this who was a friend of Terry Bradshaw and they played on the Steelers together and says he is a good guy-1LT Bleir was in the Army and served in Vietnam-I was a volunteer in the Marines and served in Vietnam.
2007-12-17 11:33:27 · answer #2 · answered by GunnyC 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ask yourself the same Question. The draft was Bulls@$t and was not fair. When you don't want to fight why would the Gov. want you as one of their fighters? This was a war that was highly controversial and many people did not believe that we had any business over there. Many people feel the same way about the current war but the difference is the people fighting signed up on their own. I always support the men and women that serve our country even if I disagree with the reason they are fighting. A deferment is just what it is...he requested and was granted a deferment. It's not as if he moved to Canada or something. The fact that we no longer have a draft speaks to how fair it was at the time. No , I do not believe he is ashamed of not going to war. Nor do I believe he should be persecuted for it.
2007-12-17 11:38:14 · answer #3 · answered by K.B. 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I can assume that Terry Bradshaw, like many other athletes, would have failed the physical to enter the armed forces. When I conducted physicals at the armed forces examining and entrance station in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s there were a lot of star athletes with genuine disqualifying conditions. The most amusing ones were the body builders who had protein in their urine, or couldn't raise their arms above their heads, and were disqualified.
If William Jefferson Clinton had gone through his physical he too may have been disqualified. I've seen video footage of him doing his stretching routine after jogging. He appears to have residuals of Osgood-Schlatter's Disease which is made evident by the notches at the top of his shin bones. That's disqualifying.
The link below is for the medical standards used for the physicals given to enlist or be drafted. Look over Chapter Two. There's a lot of stuff that can make you 4-F. Right now, only 15% of adult males between 18 and 26 years of age can make the cut on the physical for the armed forces. And that includes a lot of high-paid "jocks".
So, the story of why some served and some did not goes beyond the "conventional wisdom" on the topic.
2007-12-17 17:12:47 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ask Terry Brandshaw.
2007-12-17 11:18:07 · answer #5 · answered by LAPD Officer OWNAGE. 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
ashamed with quilt??? nah, maybe ashamed with comforter or afghan tho..
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2007-12-17 12:07:46 · answer #6 · answered by asailorsstar 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋