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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
....I never fail to be fascinated by his accounts of his years in the service, and the people he knew, and there is quite a contrast between his lack of complaining, and the draft dodgers who have bitched continually for going-on forty years now.....
......Also like many POWs, his mind is still extremely sharp. When he said John Kerry wasn't fit to be president, I believed him.
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I can't regard a Vietnam era "draft dodger" as any less of an American patriot than a POW, or any less of an authority on the politics behind American military involvement in Vietnam, or in Iraq.
Marv, the excerpts in your OP above, and your post #45 in the thread linked here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...t=91489&page=2
....IMO, undermine your overall message in your OP.
You never responded to my post #46 on that thread......
What you consider to be patriotic devotion to duty and country, conducted in a "just cause", I regard, at least twice now in my lifetime, as contrived, illegal wars of aggression.
The samples that I've provided of what we've both communicated in posts on this politics forum, speak volumes about each of our POV's. I hope that you will agree that neither of our POV's is "more American" than the other.
I sincerely wish you the best, Marv, please forgive me for not being able to avoid posting this, on the occasion of your announcement. We all post with the intent to "balance" the prior posts that we read.....that is the theme in your OP comments, I suspect.