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Football Daily | South Korea’s golden boys and a brouhaha over military service

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! In his 1965 song Draft Dodger Rag, Phil Ochs detailed the occasionally ludicrous lengths some young American men went to avoid conscription to the military. While he listed ruptured spleens, poor eyesight and flat feet as more mundane ailments, mentions of bone spurs…

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