My late father was drafted in January, 1946, and served in Okinawa, where either no walls or one wall was standing in the capital city of Naha (population of 250,000 according to him). He finished his service, went to college on the GI Bill and ROTC, and took a commission in the Nat'l Guard and later the Army Reserve. He spent a year of active duty during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 (construction of the Berlin Wall). He retired at the rank of major after putting in twenty years. When I was young, we had very few family vacations, as he was an executive in a small ad agency which could not afford for him to take two weeks off for summer camp AND two weeks of vacation.
He said that one of the reasons why he stayed in the Army was because he did not want to see destruction such as he witnessed on Okinawa visited upon the USofA (fortunately, he died before the destruction of 9-11).
And now this twit has the audacity to disparage the service of reservists!!! How dare these people!!!!!
It was discusting !
This talk was on the radio all day and the rats have brough down Guard and Reservists to a level unheard of in our country. Maybe they're still pissed at Kent State?
What does that make Democrat Tom Hayden???
Where were these people in 1991 when Clinton was running? Bush went into the National Guard and the group he joined HAD been sent to Vietnam. Was he supposed to raise his hand and say "please?"
Clinton was so afraid to serve he got Fulbright to pull strings to get him into U OF Arkansas ROTC and then promptly skipped back to England to PROTEST the war -- before he then went to the Old Soviet Union and met, along with Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, etc., with the Commies to get help for more war protests when he returned to England/USA... the true draft dodger was not only a draft dodger, he commited treason, by any sense of the word, yet the liberal press covered it up.... Hannity should have thrown all that back at Marianne and then we'd see if she squirmed?
Pray for W and Our Troops
My guess is that phase three of the Swiftboat ads will deal with Kerry betraying his country by meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris before he was officially discharged. The Democrats know it, and are in a real tizzy.
Ping, Mary Ann Marsh's stupid comment.
Now you're catching onto what the donks really feel about "authority" (that's Nazi to them)- military, vets, cops, etc