Canada and the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War and diplomatically it was officially "non-belligerent". The country's troop deployments to Vietnam were limited to a small number of national forces in 1973 to ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Vietnam_War
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Elizabeth Cheney, Deferment BabyHow Dick Cheney dodged the Vietnam draft. ... Cheney's unself-consciousness about this is (or at least was) so pronounced that in 1989 he told George C. Wilson of the Washington Post, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."
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www.slate.com/id/2097365/
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Special Report: VIETNAM DRAFT DODGER: ... This gives both Wilson and his good friend and reportedly highest ranking gay officer in the US military, Lindsay Graham, substantial "double dip" retirements without ever having to actually serve in the real military and, especially, not during the Vietnam War.
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; Vietnam War draft dodgers reunite in Canada; Date: July 10, 2006; Topic: Of Interest; ... It is estimated that more than 50,000 draft-age Americans moved to Canada to avoid US prosecution for refusing military service. Many returned after U.S. President Jimmy Carter granted them amnesty in 1977.
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www.veteranstoday.com/printout1415.html
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Government officials so far have opposed giving the new resisters refugee status, saying they are not "persecuted." Opinion writers point out that the would-be refugees are deserters, not draft dodgers refusing military conscription. ... Like many other Vietnam War resisters in Canada, Prontzos and Dankwort didn't know...
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www.seattlepi.com/local/202432_resist06.html
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Go North Young Man: A Historiographical Look at Vietnam War Draft Resisters and Military Deserters in Canada / Jody McColman; Essay: A twenty-three page paper in pdf format (46 footnotes, ... A Brief and Incomplete Bibliography of Works about American Draft Dodgers and Deserters from the Vietnam War / Stuart Spore;
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www.library.ubc.ca/jones/amcan.html
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~ (Author) "Since the Declaration of Independence, duty to country in the donning of military uniform has been the requisite of generations of Americans..." (more); Key Phrases: future draft dodgers, most draft dodgers, expatriate narratives, United States, Vietnam War, Selective Service (more...)
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Vietnam Draft Dodger...
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Members of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars are furious about Canada's reported plan to build a memorial to Vietnam draft-dodgers. ... both in our military and theirs," said John Furgess, the national commander of the largest organization of combat veterans in the U.S.
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