Can you believe it? I'm starting to wonder if this has nothing to do with racism, but rather with destroying "white" icons of Americans culture out of hate.
It's attack the predominant culture. So if you were in Japan trying to bring socialist communist ideas you would ridicule and try remove say a Hirohito statue or some other icon which represents a part of he history of the country. The infiltration of SJW social themes into sports where they don't belong is another example of eroding predominant culture. The only consolation if they were to succeed in bringing such failed ideas as full communism to America is knowing that they always kill the useful idiots like mini and anti who defend and promote their themes. But that would be ashes in our mouths.
He didn’t weasel out he was, like many, the sole means of support for 4 dependents and was deferred. The government did not allow them to join because the government did not need 4 people in need of public assistance. Many people who were deferred served in war factories or contributed in other ways. Your ignorance is telling but not unexpected.
A lot of able bodied men did but not many fathers of 4 dimwit. That would have been seen as running out on your family and, unlike your father, people didn’t take that lightly in those times.
He was later reclassified 1-A, draft eligible, but his studio, Republic Pictures, intervened on his behalf because he was the only A-list actor they had.
Have you never seen the Flying Tigers movie, he made war movies for morale, he was almost to old to join up, and him making movies for morale was a better use for him than being 1 more soldier