Why would any veteran support Romney? A veteran's response.

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14. Romney's religious deferment was not because he was a CO.

It was because he was considered a missionary. Missionaries and clergy, as well as divinity students, got automatic deferments. And there were plenty of people who used student deferments as well. It is not correct to label them cowards. Some had student deferments because they wanted to get an education and guess what, you couldn't serve in Vietnam and get an education at the same time. Besides, the student deferment was only good so long as one was a full time student. It did not get you out of the draft permanently. Yes, for many the draft ended before their student deferment did, but there was no guarantee of that going in. The system was unfair but it was not incumbent on individuals to sacrifice their education and put themselves in harm's way just because the system was unfair. I do fault Romney for not recognize the injustice of sending so many young men to Vietnam to fight in war which could not be won and was not in our national interest. But there are plenty of reasons to be against Romney and his lack of service during Vietnam is not one of them.