His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
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Days later, The New York Times in the course of an investigation, has reported that Trump himself had been deferred from getting drafted and serving in the military five times – four for education, once for a bad heel.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
Trump received his second college deferment on 14 December 1965. The others were for education.
Critics have slammed Trump for saying that Khan’s father had “no right” to criticize him in a speech at the Democratic convention last week and for implying that Khan’s mother was not allowed to speak because she is Muslim.
In an interview with The New York Times this past month, Trump said the bone spurs had been “temporary” – a “minor” malady that had not had a meaningful impact on him. He said he had visited a doctor who provided him a letter for the local draft board, which granted him the medical exemption. He could not remember the doctor’s name. “I call it the failing New York Times because it won’t be in business for more than probably a few years unless somebody goes in a buys it that wants to lose a lot of money”.
When asked why he sought to avoid the draft, Trump said “it was a very long time ago”, and he was a college student.
Trump has described the condition as heel spurs, which are protrusions caused by calcium built up on the heel bone, treated through stretching, orthotics or sometimes surgery.
He added that “over a period of time, it healed up”.
So, considering the discussion above: Trump is person who; compared defending his country on the battlefield to sleeping around, tried to belittle one of the United States’ most beloved war veterans, mocked the family of a fallen war hero and refused to serve his country when it was most needed. When questioned to say which heel was affected by the spur, Mr Trump avers that he can’t recall.
“I haven’t seen protestors”, he said. “They were spurs”, he said.
Trump has zero respect for military veterans, bad-mouthing generals and being totally disgraceful to a Muslim couple whose son paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Trump underwent an Armed Forces physical examination (with a result listed as “DISQ”) on 19 September, then was reclassified 1-Y (qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency) on 15 October 1968.
When this diagnosis was produced in front of the medical officer, Trump got the much desired 1-Y medical deferment which exempted him from military service temporarily. “I work very, very hard”, Trump stated in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
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“No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good”, he said. I mean I helped build the Vietnam memorial in downtown Manhattan.
