Veterans for Progress: ask Beauprez to Apologize
We are veterans who served in Vietnam and this photo of Congressman Bob Beauprez at the Front Range Airport in Watkins, Colorado in June, 2004 troubles us.
We have reviewed the Selective Service Classification History for Robert Louis Beauprez and these records indicate that he requested and received three different student deferments. They also indicate based on a lottery drawing for 1970, Beauprez’s Lottery #160 came up for the draft.
Yet on August 6, 1970 the records indicate that Beauprez was "excused" because of a questionable "physical reason."
Mr. Beauprez appears to want it both ways: he publicly parades in a military issued uniform, and yet the records show Beauprez never served.
Join us in calling on Mr. Beauprez to apologize for misleading us
