"Donal" wrote
Perhaps we have been lied to on this side of the Atlantic. We've been
told that Bush avoided active duty by using family influence to get a
position in the National Guard.

I thot so too but my misconception was corrected. LBJ had the Texas draft
quota set so low that only Hispanics and poor whites had to go. Bush, a
wealthy playboy and town drunk, would never have been called - he joined the
NG on a lark to fly jet planes.



Did Bill Clinton serve in the military?

Yes, as CIC, just like Reagan (c: