[hchutch]

The chance that facts will stop the likes of John F. Kerry and Michael Moore from spreading these lies is less than the chance that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will serve veal parmesan at their next awards banquet.

[holdonnow]

Very true, but at least our people should be armed with some facts.

[steve8714]

As a former Army Reservist, I can attest that perfect attendance records among the enlisted were rare. Officers in the AR were given preferential treatment, even to having an association to lobby Congress, something enlisted could not do at the time. I got into my unit in 1971, and got right in. Although there was a waiting list of 100,000 nationally, none of my friends had any trouble getting into any unit on short notice.
More interesting to me was the ethnic breakdown of my unit...people who joined in the late '60's were mostly affluent Jewish guys in law or med school or pre med...1970-72 saw the Catholic boys from working and middle class white families...after 1972, recruits were 85% black.
I don't make anything big of this but always interesting.