text_1: Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was disqualified from the Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst. 
text_2: There is, of course, a huge difference between draft evasion (or “draft dodging”) and draft avoidance: The former involves the use of unethical or illegal means (e.g., bribing a doctor to falsify a medical report, fleeing the country) to escape military service; the latter involves taking advantage of established legal means (e.g., college deferments, conscientious objector status) to avoid or delay military service. The issue discussed here is clearly not one of draft evasion, and the matter of who is justified in criticizing whom for not serving in Vietnam is a gray area to be hashed out in the public arena. The only conclusions drawn here are that Rush Limbaugh was ineligible for the draft due to a physical condition, that he had a pilonidal cyst, and that if there’s an explanation for his draft status other than the cyst, he has yet to offer it.