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LurkerMom: During his college years he was a football hero and the college team needed him more than Uncle Sam, thus he was granted five deferments and avoided going to war.
RAH RAH Team, you gotta be a football hero to avoid the draft.
Why make up nonsense when it is so easy to research the facts?
Joe Biden received four student draft deferments. He, like all males at the time, was eligible for deferment simply for being enrolled in college (or law school) and those deferments had nothing to do with football. When his student deferments expired in 1968, after he had graduated from law school, Biden received a 1-Y medical deferment.
Coincidentally (or not), Donald Trump received exactly the same four student draft deferments followed by a 1-Y medical deferment, his for bone spurs.
RAH RAH.
