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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 1 No. 487 Messages: 9
I'm most curious about how the records of the Alabama National Guard's meetings seem to have been lost. As George can tell you, there are a lot of ways to get discharged "honorably" from the National Guard's version of the military, especially if your Mommy and Daddy and multi-millionaires. I liked Kerry pointing out, in response to the Face the Nation stuff, that the National Guard of the 1960s and 1970s was a place for the privileged to do their "service" without having to sweat being near combat. George W. Bush defended Texas (and, supposedly, Alabama) from the Viet Cong, and the proof of his heroism is that not one NVA or VC ever got to Houston or Brimingham. Meanwhile, our heroes here in Illinois (like our Mayor Richard M. Daley and Paul Vallas, our former schools CEO) saved Chicago and Springfield from the same threat.
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