• Mike Huckabee had not voluntarily signed up for military
service and came of age as draft was ending. A brief explanation
on why a stint in the army is missing in Huckabee?s resume,
states the reason as 'flat feet'. 

• Huckabee had all the traits of a natural leader and
longed to be of service to his people but his flat feet became a
roadblock. "These flat feet have bothered me all my life" he is
quoted as saying. 

• When he was a freshman in college, Huckabee had enrolled
in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and looked forward
to serving in combat. On noticing his flat feet, the ROTC
Director discouraged him from joining the army.  Huckabee
remembers, "He told me there was no point in my continuing
because the army wouldn't have me anyway."

• The Vietnam War came to an end, thus ending Huckabee's
desire to pursue a career in the military. Perfectly
understanding that every chapter in his life had been God's
doing, Huckabee is a wee bit cheerless when he says, "My flat
feet ended what I'm sure would have been a heralded military
career in the post-Vietnam 1970s."
		

• President Barack Obama has not served in the military but
has a family of war veterans with impressive military records.

• His grandfather, the late Stanley Dunham served in
combat and "marched in Patton's Army" while his grandmother
"worked on a bomber assembly line".

• Obama's uncle was part of the American brigade that
helped liberate Auschwitz concentration camps.

• Obama's claim that his grandfather had got himself
enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, is
contradicted by Army records that show Stanley Dunham had signed
up six months after Pearl Harbor.

• During a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico, Obama
remarked "I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so
many of you" and "I cannot know what it is for a family to
sacrifice like so many of yours have."

• The military was "an ennobling... honorable option" for
Obama. During his teen years in Hawaii, Obama enjoyed attending
the parties at Army bases and had once considered serving in
uniform as well.

• He confided about having to sign up for Selective
Service when he graduated from High School in 1979.
Unfortunately, the Vietnam War had come to an end and "we weren't
engaged in an active military conflict at that point", thus
ending Obama's desire to pursue the military option.