Posted on 01/19/2005 1:30:54 PM PST by rightalien
Col. Eugene J. Holmes, whose disclosure of how Bill Clinton avoided the draft during the Vietnam War threatened his 1992 presidential candidacy, was buried yesterday in Fayetteville, Ark. He died Saturday at 88. Col. Holmes, a survivor of the Bataan Death March in World War II, was the director of the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas in 1969 when Mr. Clinton, then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England, applied for an ROTC slot that would exempt him from the Vietnam War draft. But after he drew a high number in the draft lottery, making it highly unlikely that his Hot Springs draft board would call him to duty, he dropped out of the ROTC program and stayed in England to study. He subsequently dropped plans to enroll in law school at Arkansas and instead studied law at Yale. The young Mr. Clinton said he had considered avoiding the draft by becoming a conscientious objector. "The decision not to be a resister and the related subsequent decisions were the most difficult of my life," he wrote to the colonel. "I decided to accept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason only, to maintain my political viability within the system ... . I had no interest in the ROTC program itself, and all I seem to have done was to protect myself from physical harm. ... I am writing, too, in the hope that my telling this one story will help you understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves loving their country but loathing the military."
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The laws of propaganda are timeless.
Have problems understanding how this POS was elected prez twice.
Knowing that people mysteriously die around the clintoons, wonder if there was foul play? Perhaps not given the fellow's age.
Are there 59 million people in North Vietnam, surely that must be the ones you are talking about as far as this war hero stuff?
Such self sacrifice...
NO!! ITS NOT TRUE! Clinton was never a draft dodger, and I have the memos to prove it. Got them from CBS news, some woman by the name of Mary M......
A true hero, unlike the kind that are advanced by the Democra_ Party. Here is the part that should be excerpted:
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...praised the colonel's heroic service in the Philippines in the early days of World War II, when he won the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and the Silver Star for service as the outnumbered American forces held out against the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula and on Corregidor, a heavily fortified island in Manila Bay.
He was one of 12,000 Americans and a much larger number of Filipinos who started the march from Mariveles, on the southern tip of the peninsula, 55 miles north to San Fernando. About 9,000 Americans arrived a week later. They had no food and were forced to drink from muddy puddles along the way. Col. Holmes was bayoneted twice, and his men carried him on a litter part of the way. Stragglers among the 3,000 who did not make it were shot, some were beheaded, and some were buried alive in graves they were forced to dig. ...
good one
Colonel Eugene Holmes's September 1992 affidavit concerning Bill Clinton and the draft.
Living with Hillary qualifies him as a war hero.
.........Taps.........
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the hills, from the lake,
From the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.
Go to sleep, peaceful sleep,
May the soldier or sailor,
God keep.
On the land or the deep,
Safe in sleep.
Love, good night, Must thou go,
When the day, And the night
Need thee so?
All is well. Speedeth all
To their rest.
Fades the light; And afar
Goeth day, And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well; Day has gone,
Night is on.
Thanks and praise, For our days,
'Neath the sun, Neath the stars,
'Neath the sky,
As we go, This we know,
God is nigh.
Take comfort and REMEMBER---The lying SOB was elected by a MINORITY.....57% did NOT vote for him....
bump for secualr lead tomrrow.
Well there was a lot of combat that use to worry the Secret Service, they use to wonder at what point they should step in and protect the President of the United States from the First Lady.
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