I don't know. Ted could smack Chuck upside the head with an E chord at 120 db. Then smack him again with the machine-head of his Byrdland in all the confusion. Even Chuck would have to go down with an arsenal like that.
Ted's about old enough to have been drafted, he wouldn't have to volunteer. Whether somebody gave him a break hasn't made the headlines, yet. Muhammad is a peace advocate. No smack of hypocrisy with Ali. I'm not suggesting any with Terrible Ted either.
An interviewer from the British newspaper The Independent questioned Nugent about a 1977 interview in High Times magazine in which Nugent allegedly detailed elaborate steps taken to avoid the Vietnam draft.[40]
He has the rage, but he doesn't have the war record. At 18, he was called up to serve in Vietnam. "In 1977 you gave an interview to High Times [the cannabis user's journal of record] where you claimed you defecated in your clothes to avoid the draft."
("I got 30 days' notice of the physical," Nugent told them. "I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.")
"I never shit my pants to get out of the draft," says Nugent, good-naturedly.
"You also told them you took crystal meth [methamphetamine, the highly destabilising drug sometimes described as poor man's crack] before the medical - as a result of which, and I quote: 'I got this big juicy 4F.'"
"Unbelievable. Meth," he replies, in a tone of deep sarcasm. "Yes, that's my drug of choice. You've got to realise that these interviewers would arrive with glazed eyes and I would make stories up. I never did crystal meth. And I never pooped my pants."
"But you did dodge the draft." "I had a 1Y [student deferment]. I enrolled at Oakland Community College."
"You said then that you wanted 'to teach the stupid bastards in the military a lesson'. I'd have thought you'd have loved the army. Guns. Travel. Danger." "Back then, I didn't even understand what World War II was."
"So basically," - I admit that I have, unaccountably, started to speak Nugent - "you didn't want to get your Michigan ass blown off in Vietnam." "Correct. I did not want to get my ass blown off in Vietnam."
"I know you do a lot of charity work for wounded veterans. Has it occurred to you that someone else may have died in Saigon because you didn't go?"
"Absolutely."
Nugent's name, as I am sure he's aware, appears, along with those of Cheney, Bush and many of their fellow Republicans, on a website called chickenhawks.com. It lists those who have evaded or abbreviated their own military service then, later in life, developed an appetite for war and machismo, either personally or by proxy.
"So has this made you..." "Certainly. Because I failed to serve in Vietnam, I feel an obligation now, to do everything I can to support those defending our freedom. Do I feel guilt and embarrassment? Yes."
"You missed your calling."
"I wish I'd understood how important America's fight against our enemies was. But did I go to Fallujah two years ago? Damn right I did. And was I in Afghanistan, manning a 50-calibre machine gun in a Chinook - ready to rock? Yes. Was I there for years? No. A couple of weeks. But I am not a coward."
chuck norris would whoop his ASS...
so, if one didn't volunteer for viet nam, they were cowards in your book? how about cassius clay? are you in military? been to iraq or afghanistan? why the hell NOT? just sayin' man...yes, i enlisted in USAF, before anything else is said.
Yeah, but he has no respect for herbsmen. Are you "ok" with that too? I'm not.
Ted Nugent is an asshole, I always liked the guys music so I went to a concert of his a couple years ago. Between every song he babbled on about guns, hunting, terrorism etc. The shit he was saying was so ignorant and rediculous I can't even bring myself to play stranglehold anymore
If one cheers for war, but ducks their obligation when they were young......yes they are Cowards or otherwise known as chicken hawks.
People like my Dad who did two tours in Vietnam (I guess he did Ted's tour for him since Ted was to busy partying and what not) would have liked to have this "patriot" on their side you know with all his great marksmanship skills.
I was USMC Infantry and did a tour in Falluja, Iraq 2004-2005 and yes Ted Nugent is Coward.
Ted Nugent is an asshole, I always liked the guys music so I went to a concert of his a couple years ago. Between every song he babbled on about guns, hunting, terrorism etc. The shit he was saying was so ignorant and rediculous I can't even bring myself to play stranglehold anymore
I'll give you a story about Teddie Boy Nugget (Nugent).....
Back in around 1980....I was back-stage security/roadie for a band called The Clash....who happened to be playing on that U.S. Tour in Detroit.....