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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: SAMWolf
Here's the link to the Oregonian and the letter.

Please don't ask me....

61 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:10 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: SAMWolf
Actually she lives in Pedelton, on the East side of Oregon, and her attitude is amazing to me.

The problem with this generation is that they think the military is a SAFE career. Well, sorry, the military is not a slush fund for college, if you join the military, you must be ready and willing, and able to kill or be killed. This is the life of a soldier, and if you can't handle it, find another way to fund your college education.

The job of the military is to kill and break things, this is thier job, not to feed people, not to catch drug smugglers, not to sit behind a desk and write up paperwork, although some do, but to DESTROY the enemies of the US. Again, if you are not willing to do that, find another way to finance your college education!!
62 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:12 PM PDT by Aric2000
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To: AFVetGal; Idakers
I have no problem with women in the military. I do have a problem with women in combat. We haven't come a long-way-baby as a nation when we put men in foxholes and submarines with women - just to prove a point. We only jeopardize the integrity of the fighting forces.
63 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:14 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: SAMWolf
How the hell did she get past the screening?
64 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:16 PM PDT by Clive
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To: SAMWolf
Hmmm...something odd here. She claims to be with the Oregon National Guard and yet next to her rank it says Pendleton. Is there a Pendleton in Oregon as well as California?

With these thoughts, this little twit has no right to be in any branch of the military.

65 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:22 PM PDT by homeschool mama
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To: SAMWolf
Future RAT Presidential candidate -- remember "I loathe the military?"
66 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:24 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
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To: SAMWolf
Good .. 1 less I dont have to wonder about . Great post sam !
67 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:30 PM PDT by Ben Bolt
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To: MistrX
I bet she was chewing on her greasy hair while penning that drivel. She should be shunned.
68 posted on 09/17/2001 2:50:31 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: SAMWolf
"Please don't ask me to kill others or to die myself in the name of revenge."

How about in the name of 'Allah'? (Sorry to be so cynical)

How about killing and dying for the cause of FREEDOM?

69 posted on 09/17/2001 2:51:51 PM PDT by d14truth
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To: Aric2000
And I just talked to Lars on the phone, the guns are cleaned and the ammos counted!! :)
70 posted on 09/17/2001 2:52:02 PM PDT by Aric2000
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To: Alberta's Child
Absolutely correct !
71 posted on 09/17/2001 2:52:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SAMWolf
Makes you kind of wonder what she was thinking WHEN SHE SIGNED UP!!! I hope they put her on the font line.
72 posted on 09/17/2001 2:52:25 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: SAMWolf
"I didn't know the Army actually went to war and killed people. I thought the just did nice stuff like pay for college."

PFC Villani - go back to playing with your Barbie dolls and SHUT UP.

73 posted on 09/17/2001 2:53:17 PM PDT by Gil4
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To: SAMWolf
The only reason her generation has its' Freedom is because of previous generations who DID give up their dreams and died for our country. They left their loved ones, left their educations and died alongside their brothers, sisters and friends.

Without taking anyting away from that contribution, I think there must have been some massive parenting failure on the part of what Tom Brokaw calls the Greatest Generation, or else it couldn't have produced this sniveling, selfish excuse for a "soldier."
74 posted on 09/17/2001 2:53:36 PM PDT by farmer18th
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!

We need a good war every ten years or so to clean out the riff-raff in the Armed Services.

75 posted on 09/17/2001 2:53:47 PM PDT by dbbeebs (ex-navy)
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To: SAMWolf
I am not afraid to defend my country

Yes, you are. You're a disgrace.

76 posted on 09/17/2001 2:54:06 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: SAMWolf
I'm realizing that was ambiguous, I meant Laura V. is a disgrace, not you, Sam! LOL!
77 posted on 09/17/2001 2:54:49 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: SAMWolf
We will be asked to leave our loved ones, to leave our educations and to die alongside our brothers, sisters and friends.

Perhaps she would prefer to die alone,in the rubble.

Ye Gods,where DO these kids come from??

Sister,I'll tell you,I would be honored to die with my brother and sister MARINES!
We would not go willingly into that good night,
but by God we would make them PAY for it!

Don't they teach them anything about small unit cohesion now adays?

78 posted on 09/17/2001 2:55:05 PM PDT by tet68
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To: SAMWolf
Of all the brave members of the National Guard, how sad this is the one we read about.
79 posted on 09/17/2001 2:55:43 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SAMWolf
I just sent a fax to the Oregon governor about this person. If you wish to do the same, the web site is http://www.governor.state.or.us/

The fax number is 1-503-378-4863. The governor's name is John A. Kitzhaber.

80 posted on 09/17/2001 2:55:57 PM PDT by Don Myers
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