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'Don't ask me to kill ... or to die' (This is our Military?)
Lar Larson Show KXL Radio - Portland Ore | 9/17/01 | LAURA VILLANI (PFC Oregon National Guard)

Posted on 09/17/2001 2:31:41 PM PDT by SAMWolf

'Don't ask me to kill ... or to die'

I am a 19-year-old college student. I joined the Oregon National Guard two months before I turned 18.

I write about the possibility of war. I am still in shock about everything that has happened. I want the people responsible to pay for their crimes.

And those are the only people who should pay.

If we go to war, it will be my generation that will have to go. America will ask us to give up our dreams and to die for our country. We will be asked to leave our loved ones, to leave our educations and to die alongside our brothers, sisters and friends.

Please don't ask us to do this. I am not afraid to defend my country, but I am afraid for my country. Enough people have died already. Please don't ask me to kill others or to die myself in the name of revenge.

LAURA VILLANI, Private first class, Pendleton


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To: Alberta's Child
"On at least one occasion General Patton "bitch-slapped" a "coward" and had to stand up in front of his men and offer an apology to the "coward" in question. "

Yes, he was forced to publicly apologize but I think he made his opinion of cowards known. In fact, the kid may not have even been a coward, but suffering from shell shock.

121 posted on 09/17/2001 3:12:36 PM PDT by Movemout
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To: kcvl
He said he was going to "discuss" this with the young lady.
122 posted on 09/17/2001 3:12:59 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: razorback-bert
It appears to be an Air National Guard, if so her boss is here .
123 posted on 09/17/2001 3:13:20 PM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: SAMWolf
Any killing that must be done will be done because it must be done, this is not about revenge. Turning the other cheek will only be seen as cowardice and will be rewarded with more attacks. Whatever the cost, we have no alternative to tracking down and destroying these snakes and to teach any government that shelters them, just how costly it will be to do so.

If such rabid dogs could be satisfied with the blood they have already spilled and we could be sure they would never again thirst for gore, then retaliation would be too expensive to undertake.The facts are though that once such brute beasts have tasted blood, their hunger can never be sated-If that were possible, the rivers of Israeli blood they have gorged upon, would long ago have quenched their thirst.

The Israeli blood supply has proved to be inadequate to satisfy these ghouls, so now they have began tapping ours. In one fell swoop, it has been brought home to us a sample of the hell this vermin has visited upon israel, almost daily for decades. Now we know the blood of the whole world will never be enough to pacify, the bastard renegades of the muslim faith. (I specify the renegades of that faith, not the supposed to be peaceful, true believers.) The only hope for returning peace and safety to the world is to kill these renegades, or find a way to cure their addiction to blood.

I repeat, it is not about revenge, it is about survival. F.J. Mitchell

124 posted on 09/17/2001 3:14:40 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell
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To: section9
Besides, what does she have to worry about.

Not much, she's got a built in escape hatch. She's the type that will get pregnant if necessary to avoid service, then kill the baby via abortion if it turns out she doesn't have to go. It's a woman's choice you know.

125 posted on 09/17/2001 3:15:10 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: SAMWolf
"If we go to war, it will be my generation that will have to go. America will ask us to give up our dreams and to die for our country. We will be asked to leave our loved ones, to leave our educations and to die alongside our brothers, sisters and friends."

"[Most] of those who died in defense of our country...were boys when they died,
and they gave up two lives--the one they were living, and the one they would have lived.
They gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers....
They gave up everyting for their country, for us. All we can do is remember."
--President Ronald Reagan, 1985

126 posted on 09/17/2001 3:16:03 PM PDT by rvoitier
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To: SAMWolf,To All
Two different and important threads.

Support Our Soldiers, E-mail a service person.

Support our Troops NOW!
127 posted on 09/17/2001 3:16:09 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: SAMWolf
If we go to war, it will be my generation that will have to go. America will ask us to give up our dreams and to die for our country. We will be asked to leave our loved ones, to leave our educations and to die alongside our brothers, sisters and friends.

Miss Larson, I ask you, if you do not give up your dreams to fight and die for your country, what dream is there left to persue? what loved ones would be left to cherish? is anything good which is not worth fighting for? and when looking in a miror, whould you honestly be able to say that you have pride in anything, least of all your self?

I too come from your generation, but you and I differ in this, I understand that my dreams and family are tied up in my country and would gladly die willingly to preserve that which I cherish.

Please think again about.

128 posted on 09/17/2001 3:16:37 PM PDT by wandering minstrel
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To: ldakers
The salient qualifer is "some." Those women who can cut it, fine, But if not, then out with them.
129 posted on 09/17/2001 3:16:54 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: SAMWolf
We're not asking you, we're ORDERING you! If you don't understand the difference, report to your CO for a discharge.

Secondly, you're female. In today's pretend "equal" Army, you'll never have to worry about being shot at because you aren't in combat arms. Seems the men still have to be the bullet catchers, even though you draw the same pay. But then, you're such a weenie anyway, you'd probably just slow the fighters down. After all, you only joined so Uncle Sugar would pay for your school and get you a weekend a month off with pay, eh?

Now, the bill comes due and you get all blubbery? You're a disgrace to a proud uniform, and fortunately for America, a rare element even in a military that's been emasculated by feel-gooders and Bill Clinton.

130 posted on 09/17/2001 3:17:38 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Trog
I wonder if Babs Boxer and DiFi have heard some of these poor little soldiers of theirs whine?

I give it one week. Boxer will have the Capitol steps flowing with the tears of a thousand pms-laden sufferers, begging, pleading, nay, DEMANDING, they be released from their oaths. Either that, or there is going to be an immediate rise in the pregnancy rate as of last Tuesday.

131 posted on 09/17/2001 3:17:57 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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To: SAMWolf
Perhaps SOMEONE in portland oregon was at the club with her girls one night and hooked up with a really cute guy that looked light skinned black but turned out to be palestinian, and now shes a baby momma to a little palestinian american kid.
132 posted on 09/17/2001 3:18:16 PM PDT by VengenceKult
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To: wandering minstrel
opps! let me fix that.

Please think again about what your priorities are.

133 posted on 09/17/2001 3:18:28 PM PDT by wandering minstrel
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To: Reeses
I think a more fitting response is to have her breaking large rocks into small rocks out in lonely Kansas.....
134 posted on 09/17/2001 3:18:42 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
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To: dandelion
I forwarded this thread to the Oregon National Guard. No comment from me was necessary!

David Wright, USMC Retired

136 posted on 09/17/2001 3:19:43 PM PDT by dcwusmc
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To: SAMWolf
"The Commander of the Oregon NG was being interviewed and he read the letter on the air."

Why? What was his purpose?

137 posted on 09/17/2001 3:20:30 PM PDT by A Navy Vet
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To: MistrX
Right on! Back during Desert Storm, there was a female medical doctor in Overland Park, Kansas who had been a member of the reserves for quite a while. When she got called up, she refused to go. She was arrested, I think, but don't know much more about it.

Your post reminded me of her. Her name was Yolanda something. She also liked getting the paychecks, but didn't want to step up when her country called. What a disgrace!

138 posted on 09/17/2001 3:21:24 PM PDT by good1
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To: truth_eagle
PATTI SCHROEDER’S POSTER GIRL

You're right.
She must do some jail time.
Her picture behind bars would make a very inspirational poster...

To other female twits who think about defrauding the system.

Wonder why she didn't do what all the other loserettes do? Get pregnant.

139 posted on 09/17/2001 3:22:19 PM PDT by Publius6961
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