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Football Daily | South Korea’s golden boys and a brouhaha over military service
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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! In his 1965 song Draft Dodger Rag, Phil Ochs detailed the occasionally ludicrous lengths some young American men went to avoid conscription to the military. While he listed ruptured spleens, poor eyesight and flat feet as more m
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Sign up now! In his 1965 song Draft Dodger Rag, Phil Ochs detailed the occasionally ludicrous lengths some young American men went to avoid conscription to the military. While he listed ruptured spleens, poor eyesight and flat feet as more mundane ailments, mentions of bone spurs (Donald J Trump), conscientious objecting (Muhammad Ali) and 30-day hygiene protests (Ted Nugent) were all conspicuous by their absence from the protest singer’s lyrics.
Ochs almost certainly had no idea that the best way to avoid the draft in South Korea is to be really good at sport. Continue reading...
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