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The process by which individuals could legally avoid military service during the Vietnam War era, often through educational or medical exemptions.
avoided service in Vietnam by receiving four student deferments while in college and a later medical deferment for bone spurs in his heels that led to a permanent 4‑F classification; contemporaneous S...
A small number of named ‑era draft resisters who went to are documented as having later returned to , but most reporting emphasizes aggregate patterns (many returned after ’s ) rather than a long rost...
A number of well‑known figures from the 1960s and 1970s are widely identified with , including , , , and several later politicians whose ‑era service records have been scrutinized; the means ranged fr...
Contemporaneous and have been released for some public figures and those documents—typically administrative deferment cards and classification letters or exam results—show student deferments and later...