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Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War—four for education and a fifth medical waiver for bone spurs in his heels after graduation in 1968.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
The swelling in the area never subsided, prompting surgery to clean up bone spurs that had traveled dangerously close to his Achilles tendon.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
And while Barack Obama was just 12 years old when the Vietnam War draft ended, Donald Trump received four student deferments and a medical-leave deferment for bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
—Steven Gillon / Made By History, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
In the nineteen-sixties, as Trump was nurturing the bone spurs that exempted him from military service, my father was an officer in a program known as Food for Peace.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
The swelling in the area never subsided, prompting surgery to clean up bone spurs that had traveled dangerously close to his Achilles tendon.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
And while Barack Obama was just 12 years old when the Vietnam War draft ended, Donald Trump received four student deferments and a medical-leave deferment for bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
—Steven Gillon / Made By History, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
In the nineteen-sixties, as Trump was nurturing the bone spurs that exempted him from military service, my father was an officer in a program known as Food for Peace.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Bone spur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bone%20spur. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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bone spur
noun
variants
also bony spur
: a bony outgrowth : osteophyte
In addition to pain, osteoarthritis shows up as stiff joints, cracking sounds, inflammation and bone spurs.—Nathan Seppa, Science News
Nathan Seppa, Science News… he had bone spurs removed from the backs of both heels.—Leigh Montville, Sports Illustrated
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