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John Derry did not have to think all that hard about joining the military and going to Vietnam. He had doubts about the wisdom of U.S. intenenlion in Vietnam, which was rapidly escalating during 1965 66, his senior year at Yale. But Yale leaders were expected to serve, as the school song went, "for God, for Country, and for Yale." His closest friends in Skull and Bones, the Yale senior society for the best and the brightest, were signing up. Fred Smith, who would go on to found Federal Express, was joining the Marines. So was Dick Pershing, grandson of World War I Gen. "Black Jack" Per-shing. There wasn't a lot of anguished debate, recalls Kerry's fellow Bonesman David Thome, who, like Kerry, joined the Navy. But, he added, "if it had been '68, we might have made a different decision." What a difference two years makes: 1968 was the year George W. Bush graduated from Yale. By then, virtually no Yale graduates were going into the military, if they could possibly avoid it. The war and the counterculture it spawned had transformed Yale. Preppy boys in coat and tie were rapidly giving way to long hair and angry protesters. The prom was canceled for lack of interest; marijuana was replacing beer. A throwback, good-time frat brother, young Bush had little use for the antiwar movement. On the other hand, he didn't want to go to Vietnam. Draft deferments for graduate school were ending that spring of 1968. The Texas Air National Guard offered another way. "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada," Bush explained to The Dallas Morning News back in 1990. "So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."
机译:约翰·德里(John Derry)不必为参军和赴越南而费心思。他对美国在越南的意图的智慧表示怀疑,这种智慧在他耶鲁大学高年级1965 66年间迅速升级。但是,随着学校歌曲的发布,人们希望耶鲁大学的领导人“为上帝,为国家,为耶鲁服务”。他在耶鲁大学最优秀和最聪明的高级社团Skull and Bones的亲密朋友们正在报名参加。继续创建联邦快递的弗雷德·史密斯(Fred Smith)加入了海军陆战队。第一次世界大战将军“ Black Jack” Per-shing的孙子Dick Pershing也是如此。克里的同胞Bonesman David Thome回忆道,当时并没有太多痛苦的辩论,他和克里一样,也加入了海军。但是,他补充说:“如果是68年,我们可能会做出不同的决定。”两年有什么不同:1968年是乔治·W·布什从耶鲁大学毕业的一年。到那时,如果他们能够避免的话,几乎没有耶鲁大学的毕业生去参军。战争及其引发的反文化改变了耶鲁大学。穿着大衣和领带的学童很快就让位给长长的头发和愤怒的抗议者。由于缺乏兴趣,舞会被取消;大麻正在代替啤酒。年轻的布什是个好时光的兄弟会兄弟,在反战运动中毫无用处。另一方面,他不想去越南。研究生课程延期草案于1968年春结束。德克萨斯航空国民警卫队提供了另一种方法。布什在1990年对《达拉斯晨报》(Dallas Morning News)解释说:“我不准备用a弹枪射出耳膜以求延期。我也不愿意去加拿大。”如何驾驶飞机。”

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