Why do people love Sly Stalone when he dodged the Viet Nam draft yet plays a hero?

Question

Sly Stalone has made his fortune playing the ultimate VietNam hero yet when he had his chance he chickened out and fled to Europe like Bill Clinton. I wish we had the real Rambo in VN we could have used him but he was just a lie. VN vet 101st Airborne Division infantry 68/69 11b10 Hue Phu Bai (dong ap bai) aka: hamburger hill.

Answer 1

i dn't know who love him but not me....

Answer 2

some people like him, some is not. I don't care who's he, he is just an actor.

Answer 3

Any time anyone tries to stay out of a war they are doing the right thing.  He didn't chicken out, He used his brain and didn't get caught in the fiasco that killed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans.  The hostilities in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia claimed the lives of more than 58,000 Americans. Another 304,000 were wounded.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. --Richard M. Nixon, 1985

If even the President was confused who are we to put forward statements like they were cast in stone.  The vast majority of people in Vietnam were not even alive during the war.  Isn't it about time you got over it?

And nobody gives a c**p about Sly Stalone anyway!

Answer 4

I agree.  I felt just as betrayed when I found out the Smurfs were only a cartoon and there was no real Smurfville.  I was six then.

Answer 5

same reason john wayen did the exact same thing and gets his picture on a us stamp... real "bs".. the public will buy into anything, any phony that comes along.. we get what we deserve !! welcome home brother...