Posted on 10/14/2022 10:03:24 AM PDT by knarf
51st Sig Bn, just up the MSR from y’
+1
5.56mm
“Ohhh I like the way you think.”
I remarked to a retired State Trooper I know that I’m not the protesting sort of guy. He said, “No, you’re the ‘burn down their houses, slaughter their livestock, and string them up on a tree’ kind of guy.”
*shrug*. Never done that. Yet.
Re the point:
Because you guys were and still ARE the best American sons that this country produced, brother.
You STOOD when others cowered and crawled.
‘Rah.
The ones who served in Korea were simply forgotten.
Trying to defeat Russia's pattern of invading its neighbors before it gets to a NATO country is not "trying to get us into a nuclear war with Russia". It is the opposite.
Helping Ukraine defeat Russia will prevent Russia from invading someplace like Latvia which would require our soldiers to fight on the front lines.
Russia's school yard bully style threats to use tactical nuclear weapons show how Putin is failing both politically and militarily.
Medea Benjamin (co-founder of Code Pink) is voicing opposition the military aid packages to Ukraine. She notes there was not one vote against it from Democrats, and on the issue she is aligned with the “extreme right” and Donald Trump.
If I hadn’t enlisted in 1964 when I was 17 (they called it a “kiddie cruise”, since I was scheduled to be released when I reached age 21) – I most likely would have been drafted into the Army and been wounded or worse. As luck would have it, I enlisted into the Navy just before the ‘Gulf Tonkin Incident’ when the term Vietnam was not yet a household name – I couldn’t locate it on a map. After radioman school, I was assigned to COMCARDIV 3 at NAS Alameda. Being on a Rear Admiral’s staff, we served on many aircraft carriers in WestPAC. I never really thought much about the right or wrong of that war. And, like many others, I just served my unit and did my duty. Now I look back at those days and realize the uselessness of it all and still have deep feelings for the many lives lost in vain. I don’t believe I’m alone in these feelings.
Fu Manchu mustache and Beatles haircut happened immediately after hon sep. I made full use of the GI Bill right after USAF, and ended up doing better in college (after 4 years mil) than I did in HS.
Sadly, many of my former mil brethren (and sisteren) didn't use their GI Bill at all. I do wonder if some feared rejection from potential classmates.
“Isn’t it odd, that there are no anti-war protestors nowadays?”
It’s a question I ask myself every now and then. I think they like War. I think they like government waste Fraud and Abuse and these people that are running the country now were the Vietnam War protesters!
They didn’t hate War, I think they loved War they just didn’t want to participate so they wanted to end the draft. And as evidenced... “by their fruits ye shall know them.”
There are very few truly anti-war people, just people who think we’re fighting for the wrong side.
I don’t blame any soldier that served. But, our Government and some military brass were definitely not all they could be. Byron was all he could be for the USMC until August 1, 1966, when he didn’t pay enough attention to where he stepped. The night before they had his unit showing Disney movies to the locals. He’d be about 79 this year. I’d love to hear his opinion.
I was peace time Korea 65-67
Her daughter Arlen is named after Sandinista revolutionary Arlen Siu, with her daughter once writing "I grew up believing that protest lines and teach-ins were normal family outings ... I was born in Cuba to an Afro-Cuban father and Jewish-American mother, and the fact that I was named for the first woman to die fighting for the Nicaraguan [Sandinista] Revolution gives you an idea of my politically oriented upbringing"
I was Radio Teletype operator . . a very skate MOS
I think we ALL did better in college after 4 years in the military, than we did before we went in.
I think we have to be in a war before they can protest it.
Americans are not dying in a war anywhere.
Self respect. That’s why I served in USAF 1968-1972.
A life sentence means less to me everyday
lol
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