THE QUOTABLE CHICKENHAWK:

'I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.'
George W. Bush, 1990
as quoted in The Houston Chronicle
May 8th, 1994.

yeah. proud service, ranked just over draft dodging and suicide for him.