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re: Let's draft all professional sports players.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:23 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:23 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Making this about the military is the equivalent of covering your ears and going na-na-na-na-na
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Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:24 pm to VernonPLSUfan
They all might have bone spurs like our president
He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.
He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:25 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Let's draft all professional sports players.
For one year. I'll hangup and listen.
Or we could let them exercise their First Amendment rights and leave the military to those who actually want to serve.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:26 pm to ChaseMac
Yea, but he at least was born in Murica unlike president past. What was his draft number?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:26 pm to ChaseMac
tell us about dubya and Cheney whilst you're at it
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:26 pm to Blue Velvet
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Yea lets enslave them for having opposing political opinions!
So people who fight and risk their lives to preserve the freedoms you enjoy are comparable to slaves?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:28 pm to Wildcat In Germany
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Or we could let them exercise their First Amendment rights and leave the military to those who actually want to serve.
Everybody wants good roads and schools but no one wants to pay taxes
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:28 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Your the dumbass
I love it when this happens.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:28 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Obama was born in '61, man..
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:28 pm to ChaseMac
Trump was a draft dodger. I think that's absolutely accurate. As was Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali and Bruce Springsteen
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:30 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Yea, but he at least was born in Murica unlike president past.
Someone else who doesn't know that Hawaii is a state?
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What was his draft number?
You do know that Obama was a small child during Vietnam, right?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:31 pm to jdeval1
Wait, not Bruce?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:32 pm to jdeval1
Comparing draft dodgers of the vietnam era to the disgrace that citizens are displaying now is ridiculous.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:33 pm to ksayetiger
I'm not comparing it but the statement is accurate. A lot of people on the left and right dodged serving in Vietnam
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:38 pm to jdeval1
True, and i would have too. Vietnam was a political shitshow.
Kneeling during the anthem is denoucing the entire fabric that the United States was built on
Kneeling during the anthem is denoucing the entire fabric that the United States was built on
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:41 pm to ksayetiger
I disagree with it but I support their right to do it. I also support my right to not watch it just like with ESPN
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:42 pm to arkiebrian
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Military draft hasn't been around since the Vietnam War.
OP
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:42 pm to ksayetiger
quote:No, the draft is a form of slavery.
So people who fight and risk their lives to preserve the freedoms you enjoy are comparable to slaves
And nobody in the military in my lifetime has preserved my remaining freedoms, only endangered those freedoms.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:44 pm to jdeval1
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but I support their right to do it.
Me too
But i vehemently disagree with it.
And i only watch the saints from time to time. Screw the nfl for many reasons
Anchors away on this thread.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 5:44 pm to Blue Velvet
What is you remaining freedoms? Kneeling at a football game?
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