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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vin71" data-source="post: 5970014" data-attributes="member: 109853"><p>I think it’s easy to forget Congress at one point had to draft a bill for sitting members to eventually resign there commission as an officer or there office.  Because so many were serving in the Pacific and European theater during WW2.  In addition to many pro athletes.  What changed 25 years later in the Vietnam era?  People with means and stature got deferments.  Other people like Senator Blumenthal misremembered he wasn’t actually in Nam’ after saying he was.  Regular kids went to Canada, or got drafted.  Some were pro active and joined the Air Force or Navy to avoid dying in a rice paddy.</p></blockquote><p></p>