The Washington Post, September 30th, 1992
It's been easy to ignore most of the election-year hyperventilating about Vietnam and the service or nonservice of candidates and officials. James Fallows's Sept. 15 op-ed column was something else entirely. Mr. Fallows said the "truth left unexpressed" is that "everyone who avoided fighting in that war ... knows that someone else, probably poorer and less educated, was there instead." The smug presumption is, of course, that the smart ones avoided service. Only lesser beings were dragged into uniform. Not so, Mr. Fallows. In 1967 I looked around me in the ranks and found others, no less educa...
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