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2025-03-04 02:08:05 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 16028E993490F25971ECEB7126346F14F6CF5169539AD6F79DC4320DFDDDB3B6
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It is not uncommon in a Democracy for a small percentage of able body men to flee conscription/draft. For example, Donald Trump dodged the Vietnam draft by fictitiously claiming he had bone spurs. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/02/27/trumps-lawyer-no-basis-for-presidents-medical-deferment-from-vietnam/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/27/trump-vietnam-war-bone-spur-diagnosis/2420475002/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/politics/trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war/index.html
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