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Originally Posted by Rodsrsr

There was a racial/civil rights component to his decision as well. You are looking at it through the lens of a white person. A Black man would have to go kill innocent people for the sake of the US, then come home and be told he has to drink out of the colored peoples water fountain and sit in the back of the bus. America may have been a great nation for you, but it wasn't so great for a Black man in the mid 60's.

I think you would have been correct in the late 50's and early 60's...but, by Jan '67 that was long gone. Clay was already rich and famous and lived quite well. No one asked him to kill innocent people. In fact, no one asked any more of him than any other American who served....white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American, etc. Most did not want to go either...but, they did.