Reply #20: remember Jesse Venturi's interview after he won in MN?? [View All]

[bobbieinok]

He said something to the effect that he and his friends goofed off a lot in high school and they didn't have rich daddies (like, presumably the dem and repub gubernatorial candidates) who could send them to college, so they ended up in the military (and, I think, in Vietnam).

His anger and resentment (although muted, possibly by time) was very clear to me. I was in grad school in the 60s and my husband had an academic deferment, a type of deferment that was eliminated in 67-68. Although he was called to Oakland for a pre-induction physical twice in the spring of 68, he somehow was not drafted and then completely escaped the draft on his 26th birthday in May.