I had, and still have, scoliosis, a spinal deviation. That was noted by a doctor at the induction center in Chicago, but it wasn't cause for rejecting me. However, depending on how well one's parents greased the skids on the local draft boards, a kid with good connections could get a 1Y classification. Even assuming Trump had a bone spur, it was his connections that got him declared unfit for service. Meanwhile, every kid off the street with an IQ over 70 got sucked in as cannon fodder. Inner-city black kids were inducted in huge drafts that had the effect of ending urban riots.

Trump got out because he was privileged. Clinton, a Fulbright scholar to Oxford College in England, got out because of talent and a 1S. Trump had no such talent, he was a privileged rich kid whose father had local connections.

I have a lot of friends, most of whom didn't serve. I have no resentment. What's done is past. What I want now from our president is competent leadership. That is what's lacking.