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On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:42:05 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 8/24/17 11:33 AM, wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:57:34 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Oh, please. If it makes you feel happier to rationalize the assistance you gave to the military-industrial complex that was involved in killing hundreds of thousands of SE Asians, hey, go for it. Nothing this country did in the war against Vietnam served our country. So, maybe you might have considered serving in the military but only if it was in total peacetime? Figures. No not a chance. Harry is older than me and it WAS peace time when I joined (64 reporting Jan 65). LBJ had just told us he would be keeping us out of the Vietnam conflict. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/johnson%20vietnam%20lie.mp3 Harry was hiding behind his 2-S More of your nonsense. Nonsense is you posting things like the above without saying which part was "nonsense". I understand that if you registered as 2-S they were not going to draft you. It is also true that your chance of having to go to SE asia in 1962-3 when you were 18 was nil. It was a volunteer job then and most of the people there were some kind of special ops that you would not have qualified for anyway. By the time of the Gulf of Tonkin lie, you would be in college with a GI Bill scholarship. |
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On 8/24/17 1:34 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:42:05 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: On 8/24/17 11:33 AM, wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:57:34 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Oh, please. If it makes you feel happier to rationalize the assistance you gave to the military-industrial complex that was involved in killing hundreds of thousands of SE Asians, hey, go for it. Nothing this country did in the war against Vietnam served our country. So, maybe you might have considered serving in the military but only if it was in total peacetime? Figures. No not a chance. Harry is older than me and it WAS peace time when I joined (64 reporting Jan 65). LBJ had just told us he would be keeping us out of the Vietnam conflict. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/johnson%20vietnam%20lie.mp3 Harry was hiding behind his 2-S More of your nonsense. Nonsense is you posting things like the above without saying which part was "nonsense". I understand that if you registered as 2-S they were not going to draft you. It is also true that your chance of having to go to SE asia in 1962-3 when you were 18 was nil. It was a volunteer job then and most of the people there were some kind of special ops that you would not have qualified for anyway. By the time of the Gulf of Tonkin lie, you would be in college with a GI Bill scholarship. It is nonsense to state I was hiding behind a student status. Like millions of young men my age, I went to college. I didn't go to college to avoid the draft or military service, just as I didn't consider college a trade school. Virtually everyone I knew from my high school and several others went to college. |
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