re: #15 Sol Berdinowitz

That, it seems is just a story Ted told, he got a proper medical deferral, but he says he made up those stories just to fuck with the heads of the stoner rock and roll journalists who came to interview him.

It was the Detroit Free Press, decidedly mainstream.

“He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment, he says. “… but if I would have gone over there, I’d have been killed, or I’d have killed, or I’d killed all the hippies in the foxholes…I would have killed everybody.” - Detroit Free Press Magazine , July 15, 1990”