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Thank you for not serving. You are right: it would have been a horrific violation of your individual rights to have endured "involuntary servitude". God forbid that you would have to risk your life for our country.

The rest of us made out because we didn't have to have you behind us with a rifle.

Get your head out -- I never said that it "would have been a horrific violation of [anyone's] individual rights"...certainly not my own, 'cuz I wasn't allowed to serve when I tried. More on that later. All I did was ask about the Involuntary Servitude Clause in the 13th Amendment -- & for some idiotic reason, you take that as an insult to those who do serve in the Military? Like the saying goes, you're "none too swuft", are you (meaning you're intelligence must be pretty low)?

One of the 1st things I tried to do after graduating high school in 1980 was join the military. I went to an Air Force recruiting office the 1st Monday afterwards. There are several members of my family who did serve, & after considering that the Iran hostage crisis was going on at the time, I felt like I had a duty to serve our country (I was still 17 also, but hoped that wouldn't matter to the Recruiter 'cuz I didn't think they had to know). But alas. one of the 1st questions the Recruiter asked me was, "Do you take any kinds of medication?". GULP....yes, I do, 'cuz I have epilepsy. The interview didn't last 5 minutes, & my dreams were crushed. Even to this day I wonder how much better my life would have been had I been allowed to wear the Uniform.