"Vaginas are landmines"
After he ran out of college deferments, trump -- who's position as a wealthy New York real estate developer, complete with all its gilded perks, was also inherited -- was able to further avoid serving by claiming a diagnosis of heel spurs. That claim garnered trump a prized medical deferment. But trump has also rationalized that by then, military service was moot issue. As trump put it, he acquired more military expertise during his time at the New York Military Academy -- a private boarding school he attended for four years prior to entering Fordham University -- than he would have attained had he served in the U.S. Army instead. He also described his efforts at avoiding sexually-transmitted diseases during the 90's as his own "personal Viet-Nam,"
"Vaginas are landmines," trump exclaimed during a 1993 appearance on The Howard Stern Show.
As for the heel spurs, trump claimed in a New York Times piece that he couldn't remember which foot was affected, or the name of the doctor who diagnosed the condition. In any event, few would deny that back then, bones spurs did little to stop trump from hitting New York's pavements in pursuit of its glitzy offerings; the Playboy Clubs, Studio 54s or any of a host of other 1970's-era glitterati hot-spots.
Which is to point out that the rich real estate developer's potential spot in the draft had to be assumed by somebody else. And for all we know, it could have been some poor schmuck from Bed-Stuy, or a mailroom worker at one of trump's luxury hotels.
If only it were possible to somehow determine the person who actually wound up filling the spot trump might have been assigned had his Studio 54 obligations not gotten in the way.
Wonder if that person ended up serving as a grunt in the Southeast Asia paradise that we helped turn into a crestfallen hell-hole. If so, odds are that grunt was shot at. Many, many times. It wasn't a photo shoot. The bullets were live.
I wonder if that grunt actually got shot.
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