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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Aug 2015
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Yo John & Tim
On 9/25/2015 1:28 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 9/25/15, 12:14 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:05:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:
Interesting question. If Harry *had* been drafted and sent to
Vietnam as so many others were, would he now consider himself a killer
of babies, women and noncombatants that pillaged Vietnam villages as he
likes to accuse others of having done?
My guess is that Harry would have strived to be the top recruit in
boot camp and he would end up leading a fire team into the villages to
kill the enemy, who ever they were.
At the end of the day he is still a guv'ment man.
I'm sure I would have gotten through boot camp successfully, but even
back in those days, I had serious misgivings about the moronic war
against the Vietnamese. I would have had a difficult time going into
villages to kill people, especially people not positively identified as
being members of the military or the non-uniformed military. Was I
supposed to trust "military" intelligence?
You're all for big government. It's odd that you never were a government
employee of any sort.
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