Letter: Trump sending your child to war?
J&C readers
Thoughts on Memorial Day: During the Vietnam War in which 58,220 U.S. soldiers lost their lives, Donald Trump, who talks loudly about the possibility of multiple U. S. military actions, received four deferments in 1964-68 while attending college. After graduation, a few weeks after his 22nd birthday (July 1968), his draft board declared Trump "1A." Two months later, however, he was medically disqualified.
As there is no explanation for his exemption because the Selective Service destroyed all medical records after the draft ended in 1973, it would seem incumbent upon Trump to provide an explanation. In its absence, how would we feel about Trump sending our children to war?
Perhaps D. Trump should be called D. Dodger? Fox News may respond by saying "what about Hillary Clinton and carelessness in using e-mail?" Fox News should ask whether she continued the customary practice of previous secretaries of State in an era when computer hacking was much less sophisticated. A bottom line is that the numbers of U.S. military deaths and casualties under Obama/Clinton were orders of magnitude smaller than occurred under George W. Bush and his secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. They made the decision that led to the deaths of more than 5,000 American children and the maiming for life of more than 25,000. What did all those tragedies gain us?
William A. Cramer
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