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To: Bikkuri

If you didn’t grow up during the Draft while there was a war going on, I have no sympathy for you.


3 posted on 04/24/2026 3:34:42 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy


"If you didn’t grow up during the Draft while there was a war going on, I have no sympathy for you."


Actually, I WAS alive during that.. but was too young. My dad, was old enough, and went into the service to avoid the draft, to the Navy, back, I believe in 1961. He became one of the first Navy SEALs, before they had a name (ended up being called "Snake Eaters", at that time). I went on to go through 2 branches of service.. USAF, and then US Army.



Don't know if you ever served... but you have NO position to say SHIT about me.
I volunteered to serve .. X2 ..
Can you say the same thing?


BTW, I also started computers before there WAS any DOS or Windows (or Apple)..


I get the idea that you may be older than me... but that doesn't give you any superiority.
Not all of us are stupid, although, it DOES seem that FR has been taken over by TDSers, Libertarians, anti-Semites, Zeepers, and whatever other anti-conservatives possible there are...

(Am on WinBlows, so don't have access to my VK ping list (on my LINUX OS).. but will ping them as soon as I am back on there.



OH!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW
I DID also put my life on the line.. Been through IRAQ and Afghanistan... Was not the jungle of Vietnam... but... KMA and FAFO...
8 posted on 04/24/2026 3:50:28 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: ComputerGuy
If you didn’t grow up during the Draft while there was a war going on, I have no sympathy for you.

Early Gen X will remember the Vietnam War, and the draft. "Draft beer, not people" was the protest. Some in Gen X had a parent who got drafted, or got married to avoid the draft. Some in Gen X might remember a teacher writing to POW's in Vietnam for the class. They will also remember Nixon playing politics with the war, Watergate, and Ford pardoning Nixon after his resignation.
34 posted on 04/24/2026 5:32:44 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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