"mmc" wrote in news:495e164a$0$4870
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Now, that
doesn't make you feel expendable?


ALL enlisted prisoners are expendable, just like enlisted soldiers or
marines.

It took me 20 years to look back on the USN before I finally came to the
realization we were all, once the contract was signed, simply prisoners in
a floating penal institution. Don't think so? Just say "NO" when you were
told to do something, even killing women and kids at Mi Lai.....

People get mad at me when I say I joined the Navy as a way to hide from the
draft....a legal way to hide. Of the 19 of us boys that graduated from my
high school in 1964, 9 of us survived Vietnam. Of the 10 who didn't come
home, 3 are STILL unaccounted for and noone seems to care. Of the 9 who
survived, the two guys who fled Prison America to Canada and Sweden are the
best off of the entire class. One is a retired executive of a Canadian
metal company. The one who went to Sweden because CEO of a major Swedish
corporation. He now lives in the Med, in a mansion overlooking the Greek
coast.

Everyone's lives were "changed" forever, most ruined.