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John Lithgow: the best lie he never told: the summary

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The actor John Lithgow explains how he got out of the Vietnam War. In the late 1960s, he was very much the war, and there was a draft: young men either , left the country, went to jail, or used their to get out of it.
Today, the US military is , but Lithgow doesn't object to a draft: for him, it makes a government more , because young people can to fight an unjust war, as half of American youth did during Vietnam.
At his army , he didn't tell a single : his behaviour made them think he was completely to serve. He had wet himself five days before and hadn't changed his : a deep , like a real method actor!

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