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A nation of draft dodgers


A nation of draft dodgers
Dennis Laich
February 1
American flags are placed at each headstone in the United States Soldiers and Airmen s Home National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day weekend, May 22, 2020, in Washington. The oldest national cemetery in the country, the site marks the final resting place for more than 14,000 veterans, including those that fought in the Civil War. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
In a recent Military Times article titled “Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft,” former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb pointed out that former commanders in chief attending the inauguration of Joe Biden avoided military service through draft deferments available to them as a result of their socio-economic status. He draws attention to one aspect of the historic, systemic: unfairness of the way America has manned its military going back to 1861 and continuing through the fundamentally unfair all-vol ....

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