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Do you remember when Donald Trump chided Sen. John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War?<\/p>\n

He said that McCain is a “hero” only because he was taken prisoner by North Vietnam. “I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

He did not know what he was talking about.<\/p>\n

Now comes a biography about Trump in which he says that his enrollment in a pricey military prep school was just like serving in the military.<\/p>\n

Here’s a flash for Trump: No. It’s not.<\/p>\n

Trump got deferments<\/a>\u00a0throughout the Vietnam War, which in some circles would classify him as a “chicken hawk.” He was sent to New York Military Academy to correct some behavioral issues, according to the book titled “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success.”<\/p>\n

Did it work? Well, that might remain an open question.<\/p>\n

But to suggest that a military school gives one the same training as the actual military is pure hooey.<\/p>\n

Why? Because high school military cadets do not face the prospect of going to war upon completion. Therein lies arguably the difference between what Trump went through as a child and what actual war heroes — such as John McCain — went through upon graduation from one of the nation’s service academies.<\/p>\n

It’s at best a stretch<\/em> to equate one’s military school upbringing to what actual soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines went through.<\/p>\n

Actual veterans — notably some of us who actually went<\/em> to war while Trump sat it out — well might take\u00a0offense at what they’ll read when “Never Enough” hits the book shelves later this month.<\/p>\n

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Do you remember when Donald Trump chided Sen. John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War? He said that McCain is a “hero” only because he was taken prisoner by North Vietnam. “I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said. He did not know what he was talking about. Now comes a biography about … Continue reading Trump: Military school was like serving in military<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2546,5455,5116,5454],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-new-york-military-academy","tag-vietnam-war","tag-war-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}