{"id":37394,"date":"2019-06-09T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37394"},"modified":"2019-06-09T02:29:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T02:29:22","slug":"mr-potus-your-service-now-isnt-the-same-as-it-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37394","title":{"rendered":"Mr. POTUS, your service now isn’t the same as it might have been"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I want to visit one more — and I hope final<\/em> — time the manner in which Donald Trump avoided military service during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

He received medical deferments related supposedly to bone spurs. Young Donald received several such deferments while young men were dying in Vietnam, a country that was “so far away,” as the president noted recently in an interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

He says that his time now as president is making up for his lack of service when he was of age to wear a military uniform.<\/p>\n

I also recall Trump telling us when he was running for president that his military school enrollment passed as more or less the same as serving in the actual military. No \u2026 it wasn’t even close to the same as what many of us were enduring in the late 1960s. Really, I know what I went through in the Army and I am quite sure that Donald Trump didn’t experience the things millions of us did during that time.<\/p>\n

Trump says now he would have been “honored” to serve. Really? Well, I don’t know how one can refute such a contention, except to remind the president that he could have sucked it up, locked and loaded a weapon and, well, served his country.<\/p>\n

He didn’t do it, just as his father didn’t serve during World War II.<\/p>\n

Instead, according to congressional committee testimony delivered by his former friend and lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump once said, “Do you think I’m stupid? I wasn’t going to Vietnam!”<\/p>\n

Mr. President, I don’t believe my service in Vietnam was a “stupid” act. I also don’t think others of us who did answer our nation’s call believe they were acting stupidly.<\/p>\n

We merely did our duty, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

OK, on this matter I am out \u2026 I hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

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I want to visit one more — and I hope final — time the manner in which Donald Trump avoided military service during the Vietnam War. He received medical deferments related supposedly to bone spurs. Young Donald received several such deferments while young men were dying in Vietnam, a country that was “so far away,” … Continue reading Mr. POTUS, your service now isn’t the same as it might have been<\/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":[12],"tags":[8484,1424,8681,3600,5116,5302],"class_list":["post-37394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-bone-spurs","tag-donald-trump","tag-military-service","tag-piers-morgan","tag-vietnam-war","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394","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=37394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37395,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394\/revisions\/37395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}