here is your boy he did not serve ether. even though there was no war he still could have served.

Barack Obama 'wanted to join US military'

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Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".

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