"N.L. Eckert" wrote in message
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N.L. Eckert wrote:
Very well said, my feelings exactly....
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Despite your feelings about the war please keep all our men and women
serving in our Armed Forces in your prayers
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The war, along with the people who deliberately lied us into it and are
now profiting from it is crap.
The young men and women who do their duty there are heroic. Each one
killed, wounded, or separated on multiple extended tours from home and
family is a national tragedy.
Screw the war, but honor the troops. It is possible to do both at once.
People who feel that we must despise the troops because they are forced
to serve in a bogus war as well as people who feel that we cannot
respect and value the troops without cheering for the war itself are all
wrong.
And a pox on all of those who are making a monetary profit off this war.
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Well, I feel that I can relate to this and I"m sure there are some
others in this group that can do the same. I was called back to
active duty when the Korean War broke out. I was told that it would
be for one years service and no more than 6 months in Korea. I spent
about 7 months in North Korea because of my spec. no., I had to train a
new man to take my place. But true to their word, I was on my way back
home after my 7 month tour of duty and was treated royally in the States
when I returned. I still remember having filet for dinner in the mess
hall. The closest thing to gormet food I ever had in the Army.

These people in Iraq are having their tours extended constantly because
Bush is running out of "cannon fodder". They are fighting a fanatical
group of people that care not if they live or die. The government
tends to hide the fact that there have been a number of suicides by
troops that when they find that they are not to be rotated out, just
can't face another tour in this armpit of the world.

I maintain that LBJ (58,000 dead GIs and for what????) was the worst
prez of the 20th Century, but Bush is running a close second........

I agree that Johnson was the worst president we have ever had. The great
society program has proven to be the worst money pit, besides Social
Security. Johnson treated the Vietnam war as his personal play thing.