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People tend to change ideals over time, the hippies of the sixties were  
concerned
more with themselves and those their age than with the country and it's  well 
being.
That group now is retiring and wants their social security check protected,  
so again
they are looking out for themselves and those their own age. I guess we are  
about
the same age, but I grew up seeing the draft dodgers as cowards. I knew and  
met
plenty of them and although their protest signs seemed to be about ideals,  
they 
talked about not wanting to risk their necks. They were having a good time  
partying,
drugs, booze, free love and long hair were the rage. The military was not  
big on any
of those. It is funny to seem the same ones gripe about Clinton and Bush,  
but not
totally unexpected of them
 
The people who show up, and defend their country, knees knocking all the  
while
are the brave ones, not the ones who burned their draft cards surrounded  by
their buddies. Hiding in Canada, faking ID cards and sneaking around is not  
brave.
 
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 12/3/2008 2:07:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
lurine AT softcom.net writes:

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.


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