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To: cinFLA
Perhaps you don't remember WWII.

You forget that the voluteer rate was at a all time high during WWII.

20 posted on 11/04/2003 6:57:20 AM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup
"You forget that the voluteer rate was at a all time high during WWII. "

Right you are. A draft would be a nationwide referrendum on public support.

31 posted on 11/04/2003 7:17:41 AM PST by ex-snook (Americans need Balanced Trade - we buy from you, you buy from us. No free rides.)
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To: Paul C. Jesup
I doubt if basic humanity was all that different back then. The difference might be that now the media has, for partisan reasons, propagandized our efforts and has spun and hidden the severity of the threats to our nation. The American people knew the direct threat of Pearl Harbor.

If the media and dems had not programmed the public...if our national realization had been allowed to remain the same as it was September 12, 2001, attitudes might be more like they were in 1942. The public would know how real this modern threat is and would know it will take more than a few days and a sound bite to eliminate the danger.

Imagine if every day, before All My Children and Dan Rather and Everybody Loves Raymond, all channels showed a 10 second clip of American bodies falling from the sky and a trailer at the bottom, reading, "REMEMBER". Imagine if every newspaper had a small picture of the WTC burning at the upper left-hand corner. Imagine if our country and our president wasn't being despised and sabotaged from within at every opportunity. Kids might be pulling up their pants and standing in line out in front of the recruiting offices.

43 posted on 11/04/2003 7:46:33 AM PST by BBT
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