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- From: jim@remtech.com (Jim Levie)
- Subject: Re: In Distress
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.225811.4959@remtech.com>
- Keywords: American Flag
- Sender: usenet@remtech.com
- Organization: Remtech Inc.
- References: <1992Nov4.045307.2314@b11.b11.ingr.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:58:11 GMT
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- gary@rocker.ingr.com (Gary Braswell) writes:
-
-
- > Well, it's official. I have stayed out of the political argument
- > up to now, and this is the only real feelings I have now that
- > we are going to have Bill Clinton for president:
-
- > I am an Officer in the Alabama Army National Guard. I have been
- > brain-washed into thinking that duty towards one's country should
- > stop at NO sacrifice. Now, at the top of my food chain - as
- > COMMANDER IN CHIEF - is a draft dodger.
-
- Well lets see here... you're a 2nd Lieutenant, that'd probably mean
- you'd be about 22-25 years old, which would mean that you would have
- been a toddler during the last of the Vietnam conflict. Condemning Bill
- Clinton for something that happened 20+ years ago with out a clear
- understanding of the times and circumstances, which is most difficult to
- do this far removed, seems to me to be rather petty.
-
- I served in the Army during the Vietnam conflict (enlisted 1966,
- graduated Infantry OCS 1968, served 15 months in Vietnam). While I
- went to Vietnam with the opinion that what we were doing was right, it
- only took a couple of months "in country" for me to decide that; 1) we
- probably had no business there, 2) we certainly weren't prosecuting
- the war to win. Had I known in 1966 what I learned in 1969 I would
- have also found a way to "dodge the draft". I don't hold Bill
- Clinton's action against him, and really it is the Vietnam era
- veterans, and only them, that have earned that right.
-
- > Tommorow morning I am flying my American Flag upside down.
-
- > ----------------
- > Gary J. Braswell
-
- > 2LT, Armor, AL-ARNG
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