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Comment: I have heard over the years and have found easily on the web information stating that muscician Ted Nugent dodged the draft for Vietnam. He was born in 1948 which would make his age fall in to the zone at the time, but I can never find any reliable answer to just what happened. Did he get drafted? Did he purposely dodge it somehow. I keep ending up at the story that he went to his draft board interview after "not showering or changing clothes for a week and after drinking massive amounts of coffee and tea to screw up his blood test". I am very curious and I think it has all the makings of an urban myth. Ted is such a hardcore believer and preacher of the military it would be the ultimate irony if this turned out to be true. I myself have been a big fan of his music and have appreciated what he has done for many organizations over the years......I have just always wondered about what exactly happened in the late 60's concerning him.
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I think that story you heard is probably true. In 1990 he told the Detroit Free Press newspaper: "He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he disavowed personal hygiene. The last ten days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and with a week to go until the physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether. When the big day came, he had been living in excrement-caked and urine-stained pants. Always the hero, however, Nugent reassured the Free Press, “But if I would have gone over there, I’d have been killed, or I’d have killed all the Hippies in the foxholes. I would have killed everybody.”" I found that here:
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quote:Originally posted by Buzzbomb: Always the hero, however, Nugent reassured the Free Press, “But if I would have gone over there, I’d have been killed, or I’d have killed all the Hippies in the foxholes. I would have killed everybody.”
And I went up there, I said, "Doc, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL!" And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL! KILL!" And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
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When I originally enlisted in the Army, I whistled that at the MEPS (entry station) where they were injecting, inspecting, detecting every part of me... and leaving no part untouched.
FINALLY, after about six hours of trying, all of a sudden, I hear this big laugh and an Army Major comes around the corner to see who the heck is messing with Alice.
And it wasn't until several YEARS later that I finally decided that someone of that high a rank wasn't really a god! I had thought that I had offended the Most High of the Most High... I was cowed with a capital "Moo!!"
It was also several years later before ANYONE pinned a medal on my chest and said "You're our boy."
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