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[Mairead]

Sorry for not responding til now...

By 'coincidence' I meant the timing--he's a very healthy, robust-looking guy (as a comedian recently said, he's the first candidate ever with a neck wider than his head), so I wonder how the docs came to find out about this problem just in time to save him from the draft. It had never stopped him from doing anything he wanted to do, and they don't do spinal xrays at induction physicals, so how did they even find out about it? Particularly when they didn't notice that a then-colleague of mine--who ended up as a Marine in '69!--had both a grade-2 heart murmur and legs of detectably unequal length.