"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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You took that oath, at least according to your stories. How did it feel,
promising to defend something you were ignorant about? What did you
*think* you were defending? "The country"? That's just a piece of land,
like any other. What about the principles which you so easily dismiss as
trash?

"think" ?? John was in the army, an an officer to boot.