[Chainmail]

From my perspective it is amazingly coincidental that those people who avoided service during Vietnam found all of it so distastefully immoral. We wouldn't call it cowardly or even treasonous, would we?

When I was 19, we had two types of young men: the ones that volunteered for service (or just allowed themselves to be drafted) because a war was on, with vicious enemies (being supported by the entire Communist Bloc), good people to rescue and fine young men to serve alongside.

And then we had the cowardly, excuse-finding non-males who were perfectly fine with letting other young men take the risks in their places.

Sorry, but that's they way it is.

[grania]

We're really opening those unsolved differences. Maybe it's a good thing, since younger generations are ignoring the cost of war. Where are the protests about the slaughter in the Mideast?

Those who didn't agree with the war weren't like today's youth, acting like it's a video game that doesn't involve them. We protested the war, we questioned it, our culture was against war as opposed to finding a better way.

I grant you that it got manipulated and turned around to the beginnings of everything politically correct and it's gotten us where we are today. But originally? The anti-war people were sincere. After WW2 and Korea, a lot of segments of the population were wondering if war would ever end, and wanted a better safer world.

[TomasUSMC]

And then we had the cowardly, excuse-finding non-males who were perfectly fine with letting other young men take the risks in their places.

Sorry, but that’s they way it is.
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