From about 1965 to 1972 anybody who enlisted in something other than the Marines or the Infantry was, in fact, evading the draft and it's probable outcome ~ namely, if you were drafted the odds were good you'd go to the Marines or the Infantry.
Why don't we have anybody running for top office who served in the Marines or the Infantry in Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War?
Why don't we have anybody running for top office who served in the Marines or the Infantry in Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War?
I have a theory about that, and I mean this with the highest upon highest of respect...
I'm sure that there were plenty of candidates...but they likely died while giving the ultimate sacrifice--themselves, their lives, their futures, in battle, in service to our country.
I really don't know how to adequately say that, without looking mean, or mean-spirited. There is something lost in the translation to the written word, and I am no literary expert.
I would much rather focus on what both candidates have done SINCE then. There have clearly been CICs who did not serve in combat, or in military, so that is not a disqualifying factor. What has each man done? With whom do I more relate? Which of the two do I trust to tell the truth? Which of the two do I trust to do what is right, damn the political fallout? Who do I trust to create an environment in which I can work, and flourish? Who do I trust to help keep a missile out of my a--, by putting one in the terrorists?
President George Walker Bush, in what I hope will be the result in November--a landslide.