Reply #14: Nope, just disagreeing with NY Times layout of story [View All]

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The New York Times cut and pasted the story around so that is was hard to determine the actual order events happened in. You have to read it a couple of time before you realize that the only way it happened was by Dean volunteering to go active duty OCS.

For example, stickn into the morass at the bottom is Dean saying, "If approved for service, he said, he thought he might try Officer Candidate School, as a Yale friend had done. He said he had never considered the National Guard.

Becaue of this statement... none of this could possibly relate to anything in selective service. NOBODY getting drafted EVER got the option of considering the National Guard. Nobody getting drafted got to "try" dirt. draftees don't even select what branch of service.