Is there any chance Curt was in Canada because he didn't want to go to Viet Nam? Just a stray neuron firing. For that matter, how did the other guys in these films escape the draft? Opinions?
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It is possible Curt went to Canada to avoid the draft but we don't know he didn't go to Vietnam. The end of the original just says that he is now a writer living in Canada. Steve probably got out by being married and of course the Toad didn't get out of it.
shareOf course, avoiding the draft is the obvious reason Curt went to Canada, a lot of Americans did that for that same reason. As for Steve, he married Laurie because he knocked her up, he would have gone to College if he didn't.
shareIf you go to Modesto these days there's a guy named Bonanader who owns a GM car dealership, one of the few that hasn't closed in that area, wonder if the name is derived from Bolander
shareGuess what? Not every person who went into the military went to Viet Nam. And if one DID go to Nam, the ratio of combat/support personnel was approx:
In wars that the U.S. have been involved in since the end of World War II; the ratio of U.S. combat troops to combat service support and support have gone from 4 support soldiers to 1 infantryman to 7 support soldiers to 1 infantryman in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And it isn't even certain that Terry died in vietnam. He faked his death and went AWOL. We don't know what truly happened to him.
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Terry ended up running a gogo Bar in Pattaya which a skanky Thai wife
shareOf course he went to Canada to avoid the draft! He was a flaming Liberal and a coward who probably went on to be part of Obama's administration.
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Curt wouldn't have gone to Vietnam because: 1) he went to college and college students weren't drafted - being a writer, one would assume he graduated. 2) he would have been too old once the draft began.
shareIf Curt stuck with college, he would have graduated in the spring of 1966, losing his student deferment at that point. He would, at that point, be 22 years old, still well within draft age.
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