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Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam |
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Posted by SLRT on Thu May 28 10:42:34 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by AlM on Thu May 28 10:31:57 2015. You bought your ticket and you took your chances.I can tell you for quite a fact that there were quite a lot of middle class-plus people (and even a very well-to-do CPA) who ended up drafted.The "poor and black" picture of the Vietnam era Army is a self-righteous leftist fantasy. And a lot of poorer guys escaped by going to state colleges for low tuition and/or scholarships and in New York, City College, for free. In college some of them (I also know personally) kept their deferments despite being bolos, because there were professors who wouldn't flunk a jerk because the prof was afraid he would be giving the "poor kid" a ticket to Vietnam. Instead he gave some other kid a ticket to Vietnam. |
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