Trump Says He Heroically Avoided Capture in Vietnam by Staying in U.S.
AMES, IOWA (The Borowitz Report)Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed a little-known episode of personal heroism from his youth on Saturday, telling an Iowa audience that he narrowly avoided capture in Vietnam by remaining in the United States for the duration of the war.
The Cong were after me, Trump said, visibly stirred by the memory. And then, just in the nick of time, I got my deferment.
The former reality-show star said he had never shared his record as a war hero before because I dont like to boast.
He said that he only disclosed the episode now because the way this nation treats our deferment veterans is a disgrace.
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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heroically-avoided-capture-in-vietnam-by-staying-in-u-s
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)marble falls
(57,108 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)love him.
Permanut
(5,613 posts)W had to go AWOL to accomplish the same thing.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)But every 18 year old I knew wanted one.
My husband was lucky because of a high lottery number. My brother suddenly had a heart mummer. We werent rich or buying his way out. My folks just did everything they could to get him out. His doctor agreed. They were proud and glad they did.
Neither of whom would claim they could command the military however.
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)marble falls
(57,108 posts)or go around belittling those who did serve without a draft hanging over them. The biggest reason I enlisted was so my dad wouldn't be able to shut me up at the dinner table discussing the war. And that was when I was twenty.
The poor don't get bone spur deferments or ass boil deferments like Rush Limbaugh did. We do what we have to do and we don't bray about it or lie.