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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...
Apr 28, 2022 · Was lee Greenwood a draft dodger? There Answetr is No, this is an urban legend, long ago debunked by snopes.com and other fact-checking websites. Lee Greenwood was given a deferment that kept...
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,...
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.
- Lee Greenwood
- 2015
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.
- Brandon Moseley
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 ...
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:
