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To: Fry
During WWII most of the US army veterans of the Bataan Death March were Reserve/National Guard members.
115 posted on 05/29/2002 1:32:32 PM PDT by reg45
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To: reg45
During WWII most of the US army veterans of the Bataan Death March were Reserve/National Guard members.
If you get a chance check out Hampton Sides' "Ghost Soldiers" there is an anecdote in there about the large number of American Indians from the 200th Coast Artillery (formed from the New Mexico National Guard). Japanese doctors sorted out the Indians one day, asked them to estimate the amount of Indian blood each had and then proceeded to sniff them and record their odor on a "finely calibrated odor scale." No one ever found out why they were doing this.

And it wasn't just going to Oxford, it was lying to his draft board and jerking the system around to save himself.
Clinton's letter to Colonel Eugene Holmes included the line, "I want to thank you, not just for saving me from the draft, but for being so kind and decent to me last summer..."
Col Holmes' 92 affidavit had better lines, "The information in that letter alone would have restricted Bill Clinton from ever qualifying to be an officer in the United States Military. Even more significant was his lack of veracity in purposefully defrauding the military by deceiving me, both in concealing his anti-military activities overseas and his counterfeit intentions for later military service."

Sadly, some think he qualified to be Commander in Chief.
135 posted on 05/29/2002 2:32:03 PM PDT by Fry
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