re: #318 Belafon

I’m sure Ben would take a religious deferment.

The Romney mission thing always rubbed me the wrong way. My grandfather served with LDS guys, they weren’t as connected as Mitt’s family though. He liked them. I joked that maybe it was because he could bum cigarettes off them in their rations more easily but as I recall, he said even they needed a smoke sometimes. That’s America for you though, Slovene immigrant’s kid from a coal town in the East serving with Mormons from the West. It’s actually that principle that has my dad supportive of national service requirements- doesn’t have to be military.