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  1. Nov 5, 2001 · It didn’t take long for the rumor to begin that Greenwood, who was reaping acclaim (and royalties) for his modern-day American anthem, was actually a draft dodger who fled the USA for Canada...

  2. Oct 3, 2003 · During the Vietnam War era, young men were eligible to be drafted for military service. But Greenwood received a hardship deferment and was not drafted. Greenwood wrote his signature song,...

  3. Lee Greenwood was not a draft dodger, this irony was created to bad mouth him. Elaine from Wilkes-barre, Sc I love "God Bless the U.S.A." It makes me feel so patriotic.

  4. Feb 1, 2021 · In a recent Military Times article titled “Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft,” former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb pointed out that ...

  5. Sep 2, 2017 · For the last 15 years, as Greenwood has tramped across the globe with the USO, his song’s wistfully patriotic verses and rousing chorus has raised military audiences to their feet like they were...

  6. Sep 24, 2021 · President Joe Biden on Wednesday removed country music singer/songwriter Lee Greenwood from the National Endowment for the Arts. Greenwood was first appointed by President George W Bush in 2008. Greenwood was reappointed to six-year terms by both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J Trump.

  7. Draft Deferment: Vietnam. EVENT. Recipients of draft deferments during the Vietnam War era. Note that some of these men enlisted in the armed forces despite a deferment. A total of 1,857,304 men were drafted between August 1964 and February 1973, drawing from the pool of men born on or before 1955. Some common Selective Service classifications:

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