John Edwards Military rec.

[dcg0317]

Does anyone know what Jonh Edwards was doing during the Vietnam war, was he in college, how come noone or at least I havn't heard about what he was doing the war.

 

[jrydberg]

I believe he was in high school towards the end of the war... too young.

 

[year2late]

He was signed up for the draft, but never got called up.

 

[palmtreegirl]

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_edwards/bio.html

His biography says he graduated North Carolina University in 1974.

 

[year2late]

From a MSN article

Edwards was born on June 10, 1953. That put him in the Vietnam draft lottery of Feb. 2, 1972, when Edwards was a sophomore at North Carolina State University. (Like a great many college students, he opposed the war.) The lottery ranked individuals according to their birth date; Edwards drew 178, which was reasonably "good," i.e., high, reducing the likelihood he would be called up. (The highest number called during the previous year had been 95.) In any event, Edwards' lottery number didn't even matter, because nobody in the 1972 lottery was ever called up. The war was winding down and draft resistance had become an enormous headache for the Pentagon. In 1973, it scotched the draft altogether and instituted the All Volunteer Army. Unimpeded by any Vietnam-related moral or legal dilemmas, Edwards graduated from North Carolina State in the spring of 1974 and enrolled at the University of North Carolina Law School in the fall.

 

[peachgirl]

Thanks Y2L, that ought to put an end to this one....

 

[year2late]

Originally posted by peachgirl
Thanks Y2L, that ought to put an end to this one....

Not really, he was supposed to be born in 1951, but he stayed in his mommy's womb an extra 2 years to evade the draft.

 

[captJack88]

Why does this matter? All the threads about Kerry and Bush service during Nam are enough, now we're onto Edwards during Nam? I wouldn't vote for Kerry/Edwards if they both served or if neither one of them served. Aren't there other issues we can debate, issues that matter? Lets move on!

 

[lucysdad]

Originally posted by year2late
Not really, he was supposed to be born in 1951, but he stayed in his mommy's womb an extra 2 years to evade the draft.

Now THAT'S funny.

 

[dmadman43]

Originally posted by captJack88
Why does this matter? All the threads about Kerry and Bush service during Nam are enough, now we're onto Edwards during Nam? I wouldn't vote for Kerry/Edwards if they both served or if neither one of them served. Aren't there other issues we can debate, issues that matter? Lets move on!

I dunno. Ask Kerry. He's the one that brought it up and continues to do so