Posted on 10/14/2025 5:52:45 AM PDT by LouAvul
Another friend of mine was going to get drafted so he joined the navy and ended up in Kodiak Island for his whole enlistment. Never went to Nam either. Mr.GG2’s older brother got assigned as the commander of the station on Fire Island Alaska and never went to Nam.
I quit worrying about all the numbers and different deferments back in those days and just volunteered. After 30 years active service I figured out I liked it.
I quit worrying about all the numbers and different deferments back in those days and just volunteered. After 30 years active service I figured out I liked it.
I remember that LBJ statement. I was 17 years of age. When LBJ was elected on a NO WAR platform and sent troops to SE Asia I knew then I was a Republican even though I could not vote till 21 years of age.
My sister had a friend married to an officer. He too was shot down.
“I don’t buy it,”
I don’t buy it either. To be a prominent member of the Communist party in those days, you had to be a slavish Stalin loyalist. That’s not someone who would write a friendly letter to Truman.
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