On 28 Jan 2005 13:11:50 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


JohnH wrote:
On 28 Jan 2005 12:04:22 -0800, "basskisser"
wrote:


Soldiers have 8th grade educations Bassy? What planet do you live
on?

I've known MANY people where I grew up, that quit school at or
around
that time and joined the military.

Are you now trying to tell us that some folks went to school where
you
grew up? Did they join the military at 13 years old? Wow!

Where did I say they were 13 years old, John? Jeez, can you read ONE
FLIPPIN sentence and get it right? A LOT of the farm boys around those
parts were dumber than posts. When I was in ninth grade, there was one
in my class that was so big when the teacher made him put his legs
under his desk, the legs of the desk were six inches off of the floor.
Add to that the fact that more than that never got past the eighth
grade, screwed around for a year or two, then joined. I don't know
about now, but back then, you could be dumber than the proverbial stump
and still get in the military. The local justice of the peace was all
the time taking young men, who had gotten into a little trouble, and
letting them off IF they joined.

Most 8th graders are 13 when they start 8th grade. Now, where you grew
up they may have been 18, I don't know. Usually the Army won't take
8th grade dropouts. In fact, for many years they've taken only high
school graduates.

Now you're asking us to believe you were in the ninth grade? Are you
more credible than Harry?

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes