On 10/22/14 5:53 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/22/2014 5:10 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/22/14 4:16 PM, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/22/14 1:48 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:08:03 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 10/21/14, 5:52 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:20:14 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:39:23 -0400, Harrold
wrote:

On 10/21/2014 2:17 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 10/21/14 1:41 PM, True North wrote:
Is that the best you can come up with?
Better go back to swabbing the decks and chipping rust off old
tubs.
Oh wait...you don't boat anymore....and probably haven't since
you
wore a Popeye outfit back in the 60's.


If you are referring to FlaJim, our Navy boy, he's a cowardly
pussy and
properly wore Olive Oyl's outfit when he was in uniform
learning how to
repair obsolete outdrives.


Cmon Krausie. You're supposed to be a creative writer.

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I understand he was very creative with his loan applications -
lucky
he's not in jail.

Hard to believe Krausie can call one who served in our armed
forces a
'cowardly pussy'.


FlaJim is a cowardly pussy.

Actually, he served - you ran. Who's the cowardly pussy?



Ran? My local draft board always knew where I was. But, like most young
men in my age group, I wasn't drafted. I had better options than going
off to SE Asia to participate in war mongering against people who
were no
threat to anyone other than a right-wing dictator. Yes, it took brave
men
like you and FlaJim to help our country fight a war in which we burned
villages and non-combatant men, women, and children, and sprayed
chemical
warfare weapons on their forests and jungles.

However, my referring to FlaJim as a cowardly pussy has nothing to do
with the time he hid out in the navy.




All brought to you by a Democrat POTUS!



Actually, my student status didn't really end until the end of 1968, so
Nixon would have been POTUS, probably, if I had ever received a letter
to report.




I really don't care if you were subject to the draft or not. Not
everyone got a notice. However, 1968 was the peak of the number of
people who were at least notified to report for a physical. The lottery
system didn't start until late 1969.

A school deferment was pretty much automatic and could be extended if
you then enrolled in a graduate program although that ended in 1968. The
relative number of people enrolled in school from 1964 through 1972 very
closely follows the draft numbers, peaking in 1968. After 1968 the
number drafted and the number enrolled in school quickly began to
decline. The last person drafted was at the end of 1972. The draft was
officially abolished in 1979.




Most guys my age did not get a notice to report for a pre-draft physical
during the 1960s. Most guys my age were not drafted. My student
deferment ended in 1968 and my draft board knew it.

I certainly wasn't going to go enlist at that point so I could go kill
SE Asians who were *absolutely no threat* to my country. I didn't see
any reason then and I don't see any reason now for us to do what we did
there to prop up one horrific right-wing dictator after another and use
chemical weapons on the indigenous people there. Oh, wait...some of you
believe that bull**** "my country right or wrong" bull****, n'est-ce pas?



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