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I am posting all of you a quote from FDR's 1940 speech after the implementation of the Federalization of the Army National Guard and the fact he called it "the finest in the world", you can read whole speech at link provided:
http:"//www.presidency.ucsb.edu/site/docs/pppus.php?admin=032&year=1940&id=127
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Next, take up the Army: Under normal conditions we have no need for a vast Army in this country. But you and I know that unprecedented dangers require unprecedented action to guard the peace of America against unprecedented threats.
Since that day, a little over a year ago, when Poland was invaded, we have more than doubled the size of our regular Army. Adding to this, the Federalized National Guardsmen, our armed land forces now equal more than 436,000 enlisted men. And yet there are armies overseas that run four and five and six million men.
The officers and men of our Army and National Guard are the finest in the world.
They will be, as you know, the nucleus for the training of the young men who are being called under the Selective Service Act, 800,000 of them in the course of this year out of nearly 17,000,000 registered—in other words, a little less than 5 per cent of the total registration.
General Marshall said to me the other day that the task of training those young men is, for the Army, a "profound privilege."
Campaign orators seek to tear down the morale of the American people when they make false "...
WHEN KERRY STARTS TEARING DOWN BUSH'S GUARD TIME, THIS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS SHOULD SHUT HIM UP.