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while Kerry was being wounded and awarded medals for courage under fire, Bush checked the box not to go to Vietnam although he was an ardent supporter of the war (i.e., of other people’s going over there to get killed); furthermore, he was grounded for failing to show up for his physical, and then was AWOL for at least eight months while working on a family friends’ political campaign in Alabama (several former Alabama Air National Guardsmen could appear saying, “I didn’t serve with George Bush in the Alabama Air National Guard because I never saw him.”