Posted on 10/05/2012 7:20:48 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Considering what was happening during the time frame he made his choice to enter the service “instead”, a lot of guys would have preferred prison.
A vet is a vet, to me.
Yours is maybe the dumbest post on FR. And that’s saying a lot.
Thank you.
I strive to excel.
To understand the politics of Jimi Hendrix, one must understand the zeitgeist of his time. Free love, drugs, anti-war, communes, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, Nixon’s lies, and a Mary Poppins carpet bag of other paradigm-”
He died in 1970. What were the “Nixon lies” that you speak of?
Dunno.
You’d have ask the author of that excerpt.
I was 10 years old when he died and not paying particular attention to politics.
I don’t think that anything going on in 1961 was a reason for anyone to choose jail time over the military.
Sorry about that. I just thought that seemed out of place.
I should also say that a vet is normally someone who served their country and completed service, not someone who seeks to get out, or who is forced out for turning against their uniform.
Hendrix was a disgrace and someone who was kicked out, he couldn’t meet the challenge, he was a military failure.
Any time anybody enlists, there always exists a chance of being killed on duty.
I knew lots of National Guard who *never* imagined that they’d someday actually be shooting at people in Iraq instead of just goofing off every few weekends but there they were, to their immense surprise.
Nothing in life is guaranteed.
Patton survived all those wars and then died on the way to a pheasant hunt in a Jeep.
You never know.
No hard feelings.
I didn’t write the article and frankly can’t personally attest to his ‘character’ since, for most of his life, I wasn’t even born yet.
“he was a military failure.”
But his active service record still trumps Obeyme’s.
:)
His military record also exceeds Romney’s, and any man in Romney’s direct line since they arrived in America 170 years ago.
Not someone who strives to end his enlistment prematurely, especially in peacetime, he is trying to get out, and that is what Hendrix did.
Besides, that ignores your first point and my response to it. ""Considering what was happening during the time frame he made his choice to enter the service “instead”, a lot of guys would have preferred prison.""
What was such a big deal in early 1961 that would make a "lot of guys" prefer prison?
Well, there ya go.
[are Mormons exempt from service like Amish or something?]
No, Mormons can serve, but no one has ever been able to snag one in the Romney direct line going back to their arrival before the Civil War.
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