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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

The problem with Clinton and other such chicken hawks is that they have no 
problem sending other people's sons to fight when it suits 'their' purposes.  
Dodging the draft is not brave ; maybe fun for some, but not brave  , 
"resisting" the government , including the draft can be brave if done by a 
conscientous person, something that Clinton has never proven to 
be................................................

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--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Robert Walton <waltonrp AT gmail.com> wrote:


> It's funny to see how people have judged presidential candidates on
> their service or lack of it since Clinton. He was the first president
> that came of age in the 1960s.
> 
> I was a kid in the 60s, came into my teens in the 70s. Ever since I
> remember, dodging the draft was a good thing. Sometimes I
> guess I'm in my own world, but it's still funny to hear people talk
> about that being a bad thing. Being a child of people that went back
> to the land in the 60s, I just grew up thinking that burning drat cards
> was a brave thing to do.
> 
> It's really funny to hear people my parents age (old
> hippies) talk about how Clinton or Bush didn't serve. Wasn't that
> what they admired in the 60s? I guess not everyone did or they just forgot.
> 
> I remember being 16 or so and a lot of the thought me and my friends
> had was what a hard act our generation had to follow with the hippies
> and the 60s and all. I don't think we did any better. I
> guess becoming Yuppies was just as bad as being at the cusp and then
> forgetting you ever got there.
> 
> Rob - Va
> Glad I did not do the Yuppie thing.
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