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To: USMCVet
Real men didn't look at their draft number. Real men signed up for the big stuff back then: we had a war on.

Does that apply to you, personally? I had a draft number in the high 300s and still signed on. That does not mean I looked down on the people who went Guard instead.

The only people I looked down on, then and now, are the John Kerry's who spit on those of us defending their sorry a$$es.

You are pretty close to claiming moral equivalence between George Bush and Hanoi John. Ain't no way.

44 posted on 04/27/2004 5:17:48 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: EternalHope
"Does that apply to you, personally? I had a draft number in the high 300s and still signed on. "

Answer; Yes. I have no idea what my draft number was - I went downtown and signed up with the Marine Corps for four years and was in Vietnam 6 months later. You and I were a small part of the hundreds of thousands of men that volunteered, knowing full well what we were volunteering for - that we had a good chance of losing our young lives or parts of our bodies in the service of our country.

I still resent the other young men who stayed back, took advantage of all of the fun of being young in the 60s and the left the tough stuff to people like you and I. There was a decidedly non-egalitarian slant to the obligations for that war and 'ol George was one of many that used his family's wealth and position to keep him relatively safe (I will admit that flying an F-102 is not particularly safe - it's just not as useful - or dangerous - as flying an F-4 in country would have been).

George Bush has done well with his life and he's infinitely better that the man that preceded him in the office - but no amount of flack puffery can make him equivalent to the least private who served at Con Thien or Ia Drang or hundreds of nameless places in that war.

52 posted on 04/28/2004 3:17:13 AM PDT by USMCVet
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