You are correct. Money talks in cases like this.He probably didn't want to serve. Bone Spurs was obviously a convenient excuse. His deferment and how he got it is also a convenient excuse for the Democrats to gripe. Bill Clinton got deferments. Mohammed Ali flat out dodged the draft and his funeral was a gala event, just because he was a World Champion Boxer. There's way too much negativity in this Country that's why our society is deteriorating. I see it continuing year by year until we're finished.
I had bone spurs and was drafted and served. Bone spurs are not normally debilitating over a long period of time. Pain flares up and then quickly goes away over the period of a few days. I still have bone spurs since they don't simply go away and haven't had a flare-up in many decades.
My opinion -- Trump did not want to serve in the armed forces and got his doctor to sign off on his "condition", whether real or not. I doubt that many people who were classified "1Y" were ever re-examined and had their draft status changed.
I do find it rather hypocritical that Trump says he's done more for the military than almost any other POTUS yet declined to serve his country in the armed forces. But there are many more important issues on which to focus. Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX