FYI ... Just so you know, yes, I was there. I joined. I went. So don’t tell me I don’t know what a draft dodger is and don’t make stupid attempts at changing the definition.
@gdaddy1 , you are ridiculous and you do not know what a draft dodger is. But if you are hung up on the definition of a word that actually has no formally recognized definition (unlike draft resistance or draft evasion or draft avoidance) then I guess that makes you a draft dodger because you avoided the draft by joining the navy. Like many other kids did during that time period. Like the way GW Bush avoided the draft by getting jumped in front of a long line to join the TANG. But I am not going call you or them draft dodgers.
Although Bruce is mistaken about the use of a word that is not a legal term and has no legal definition, Bruce is brutally honest about what he did in 1968, unlike Cadet Bonespurs who "had a very strong letter." Before that, Fat Donnie lied and claimed he had a lottery number ’the likes of which no one had ever seen before.’
And seeing as how talking your way out of the draft wasn’t incredibly easy during the Vietnam War, no one except those who were in the room during that physical truly know what went down, regardless of what Bruce’s misguided guilt compels him to say. And if he would have passed the physical and not been 4-Fed? He says he wasn’t going to go, but since that didn’t happen no one will ever know since quite often people say one thing, but when push actually comes to shove they take a different course of action.
Go ask your best friend, Google... here’s the answer... "Yes, Bruce Springsteen was a "stone-cold draft dodger" who avoided the Vietnam War draft. He admitted to using various tactics to avoid military service, including claiming to be high on LSD and exhibiting erratic behavior during his induction physical."
And thanks for including part of the quote that I provided in my previous post and coming off as if you are the great discoverer of the truth. Give me a break.
So continue on with your snowflake rage against Bruce and keep pumping yourself up with your nationalistic pride.