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Second, and far worse, he actually said it wasn't necessary for him to serve because his father had served, and had once told him that he had served so Sean would never have to.

My father was shot in WWII. In many respects, his wounds never healed. Never mind that he was a solid conservative who worked on the Goldwater campaign in South Alabama as well as Jack Edwards and Bill Dickenson. He would have broken both my legs before letting me enlist. Said he saw things no one should ever have to see.

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My grandfather was wounded fighting the Nazis in Italy

To his dying day, he wouldn't eat crabs because he saw the bodies of men killed at Anzio being eaten by swarms of crabs

But I wouldn't think of using that to argue that I could cheerlead a war without ever having served and say that I had an inheritable exemption from service

And if I were a popular radio host, I wouldn't be too chicken to go to a war zone either