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THE UNKNOWN DRAFT DODGER

Fri, 02/18/2005 - 7:02pm
Submitted by David

WASHINGTON DC- OK. So for the past twenty years my heart has bled for the Vietnam Vets. I do benefits. I donate to the charities. Because I care. I'm in DC. I go to the wall. My name isn't up there. Not so much as a mention. How much does one man have to give?

OK, maybe I didn't go through Nam. But I owned stock in Pan Am. That's never coming back.

This country does nothing to honor the draft dodger. Not so much as a plaque. I have post traumatic stress syndrome. Each time I hear a gun go off I think it's a car backfiring. Sometimes in the middle of the night I wake up in a cold sweat thinking I'm back in a Montreal disco snorting coke with Margaret Trudeau.

Maybe it's just a lot of "me think" but I feel slighted.