Joe Biden’s Draft Record Looks a Lot Like Donald Trump’s. Do Democrats Care? :
Just a few months before President Donald Trump received his
now-infamous diagnosis of “bone spurs in the heels,” former high school
football star Biden got the same 1-Y draft deferment for “asthma as a teenager.”
It was one of five deferments Biden received (the same number as
notorious GOP “draft dodger” Dick Cheney) and allowed him to avoid being
drafted at the height of the war. The year 1968 was one of the
bloodiest of the Vietnam conflict with 296,406 Americans drafted into
military service — the second-highest during the war.