Posted on 08/10/2005 1:47:20 PM PDT by Sam Hill
No kidding
So what carrot did they dangle in frount of you to get you to enlist in the military, when you were a boy?
Why not? By all accounts he was a church going Eagle scout who wanted to make a career out of the military and he re-uped when he didn't have to. No one had to dangle anything in front of this great man.
"so it's not likely that people will choose NOT to live in cities."
They have no choice but to live in cities. They can't go back to an agrarian society. It all started with the Industrial Revolution, I believe, when people were forced into cities for the benefit of the industrialist.
I, for one, will be more than happy to move to an urban/country setting, but do not have the wherewithall to do so. It's an excellent way, though, to avoid the tyranny of multiculturalism and diversity mumbo-jumbo.
"He volunteered to go."
Yes, he did. He volunteered, and in doing so was prepared to fight to defend our country.
I don't think I or this woman is disputing that.
This bitch thinks she is the only mother to ever lose a son in battle. How dare she sully her son's brave legacy with her Jew-hating, traitorous lies. Bush should meet with her and slap her in the face, like Truman would have.
:)
"So what carrot did they dangle in frount of you to get you to enlist in the military, when you were a boy?"
No carrot for moi. LOl!
I had to serve. No all-volunteer army back in '72.
LMAO !!!!!
Love it !!
Now..which one is the King...and HOW can you tell?
From what movie is that pic?
"He 'asn't got @#$% all over 'im!" :)
"People should return to living in rural areas.
That will be the best way to protect against WMD terrorism."
LOL
You're a nutbag.
Go build yourself a bunker and live like a hermit, if you so desire, but saying that cities are obsolete, is delusional in the extreme! And biological warfare, which IS something that Saddam and the Islamonazis and even other crazies have either used or would love to use against us, is not deterred by the rurality of the populace the wish to use it against.
And while there was a time, when most things Americans wanted were grown and/or manufactured here, there has NEVER been a time when we did not import things and food from other places.
I suspect that you are very unhappy to be living now and yearn for a time, which though it never existed outside of your own imaginings, you wish you had been born to. Well, until a time machine is really invented, you're stuck; live with it.
You really have a very sick view of things!
They also didn't draft anybody in '72, just issued numbers
Mine was 134
"The real reason her son joined the military is the same as that of most other boys: a carrot is dangled in their face and told to sign at the bootom of the form. And hooked they are!"
Yeah. Right.
And he re-upped again, why?
Sheesh, where are all of these nutbags coming from? DU?
This woman is shilling for the left and monstrously using her dead son whom I am cosmically certain would not approve of her words, her actions or the company that she keeps. Don't ask me to have any respect for one whom has none for the fallen hero she bore. She has long ago exceeded the benefit of the doubt.
That is just not good enough.
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