[knarf]

I'm not sure we can re-claim the Army I enlisted in, in 1965, but THIS skinny little 17 year old RA grew up into beginning manhood I can NOW (at 75) see would not have happened, probably for another 15 years or so.

As childish and immature as I was, The Army provided a mans' perspective I would not have gotten from my successful, white collar father.

My father was not a bad or absentee guy, he just had a different (and we WERE Bawstin city types, in a suburbian kind of way) viewpoint on a lot of things different from say, corn fed redneck types.

I never agreed to the doing away with the draft and I think it should be re-instated, but NOT into a woke military.

Everything woke needs to be pressure hosed out and down the drain and every scary element of 17-20 year olds being yelled at and quasi abused should come back.

MANY a Marine can attest to their initial training as the foundation for their manhood 40 or more years later.

my two cents' worth.

[BobL]

“my two cents’ worth.”

Your ‘worth’ is a LOT MORE than two cents.