I haven’t been posting news articles like this, but as the season gets hot - why shouldn’t the news. So beginning today, when good “dirt” is shown on ANY candidate, I will post a bit of the story and a link to the rest of it. Remember, a well informed voter is our objective, and well informed takes the good and the bad into consideration.

from Boston.com

As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon “minister of religion” for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.

Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military.

The deferments for Mormon missionaries became increasingly controversial in the late 1960s, especially in Utah, leading the Mormon Church and the government to limit the number of church missionaries who could put off their military service. That agreement called for each church ward, or church district, to designate one male every six months to be exempted from potential duty for the duration of his missionary work. READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT BOSTON.COM