Cenk Uygur
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#LoserDonald Takes Vet’s Purple Heart After Draft Dodging Vietnam
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August 5, 2016
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4:37Now PlayingDonald Trump happily accepted a Purple Heart medal from a formerly wounded veteran. He said he always wanted a Purple Heart, but he draft dodged Vietnam. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health.
He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.”*
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