Joseph wrote:
Is that true? did he really get a pass on fighting in Vietnam because he said he was too depressed? And than went on to support the war? I’m surprised they didn’t make him go anyway.
"Tancredo obtained 1-Y status in 1970, after his student deferments ran out, on the grounds that he had been "diagnosed with depression when he was 16 or 17 and received medication for five years for panic attacks and bouts of anxiety and depression." Tancredo was 24 at the time."