James_Madison_Lives
06-23-2019, 11:40 AM
https://hubpages.com/politics/Who-is-John-Bolton-Tough-Guy-Vietnam-Draft-Dodger
Joining a long and illustrious list of privileged boys who start wars but never have to fight in them, it turns out John Bolton, Mister Let's Attack Iran, took an easy way when it was his turn to fight.
It is not surprising that Bolton supported the Vietnam War while at Yale and might have even debated in favor of it as a member of the Yale Political Union. But when his draft number came up 185, Johnny Boy copped to the Guard. Since the National Guard units across America were full of boys doing exactly the same thing, almost guaranteed stateside service rather than nasty ambushes in the jungle, it sometimes took some doing to get in.
while John Bolton, during his Guard service, bravely lugged briefcases and and accordion files up the Justice Department steps, as an intern for super pro-Vietnam War hawk Vice President Spiro Agnew, other boys took his place in the rice paddies....
Drawing the same draft lottery number, 185, because his birthday was the same, November 20th, one blue collar boy, Jerry Miller, displayed the manner of men we lost to that conflict when he was wounded by a rocket, but managed to radio for assistance when he saw other of his unit more gravely wounded, and declined help when the medics arrived until the rest of the men were taken care of.
The Army tried to give Miller a Bronze Star, but he declined it, saying that he had done nothing special, that anyone else wouldn't have done. A month later Miller was killed when he hit a trip wire for one the nasty traps the Viet Cong liked to put out in the jungle...
https://hubpages.com/politics/Who-is-John-Bolton-Tough-Guy-Vietnam-Draft-Dodger
Joining a long and illustrious list of privileged boys who start wars but never have to fight in them, it turns out John Bolton, Mister Let's Attack Iran, took an easy way when it was his turn to fight.
It is not surprising that Bolton supported the Vietnam War while at Yale and might have even debated in favor of it as a member of the Yale Political Union. But when his draft number came up 185, Johnny Boy copped to the Guard. Since the National Guard units across America were full of boys doing exactly the same thing, almost guaranteed stateside service rather than nasty ambushes in the jungle, it sometimes took some doing to get in.
while John Bolton, during his Guard service, bravely lugged briefcases and and accordion files up the Justice Department steps, as an intern for super pro-Vietnam War hawk Vice President Spiro Agnew, other boys took his place in the rice paddies....
Drawing the same draft lottery number, 185, because his birthday was the same, November 20th, one blue collar boy, Jerry Miller, displayed the manner of men we lost to that conflict when he was wounded by a rocket, but managed to radio for assistance when he saw other of his unit more gravely wounded, and declined help when the medics arrived until the rest of the men were taken care of.
The Army tried to give Miller a Bronze Star, but he declined it, saying that he had done nothing special, that anyone else wouldn't have done. A month later Miller was killed when he hit a trip wire for one the nasty traps the Viet Cong liked to put out in the jungle...
https://hubpages.com/politics/Who-is-John-Bolton-Tough-Guy-Vietnam-Draft-Dodger