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marble falls

(57,350 posts)
1. Maybe with specific draft dodgers like Ted Nugent or Donald Trump. But I consider Mohamad Ali ...
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 02:02 PM
Oct 2020

a real patriot.

thucythucy

(8,094 posts)
6. And he didn't "dodge" the draft
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 03:13 PM
Oct 2020

by claiming some bogus medical issue. He made a principled stand and was willing to go to prison as an act of conscience.

Big big difference.

SWBTATTReg

(22,176 posts)
5. Nailed it. Very appropriate and true. Hypocrites who somehow grabbed the cameras and are
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 03:13 PM
Oct 2020

polluting the very air we all breath. No wonder so many have lost faith in some of our 'leaders' (I hate this word 'leader', none of these 3 have any leadership skills what so ever). Karma, I'd like to think, does have a way of coming back on such people.

My Pet Orangutan

(9,335 posts)
13. "Hell no, I won't go"
Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:36 PM
Oct 2020

That's patriotic. Vietnam was a criminal war.

My cousin was drafted. He went and did not come back. Someone came back with the same ID, but 'Nam killed the man. 40 years later, 'Nam took his body, suffering from an inexplicable, 'atypical early-onset dementia' that finished he off.

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