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smooth · 09-07-2003, 07:14 PM

My Grandfather was a Republican and a conscientious objector. He was drafted into WW2 but worked as some kind of medical staff on the front lines and decided to not carry arms. I think that was very admirable and heroic to face risks like that due to his beliefs.

After his time he went to college on the GI bill and learned to farm--he was Native American with an 8th grade education. His tractor rolled off a mountain and crushed him when my mother was about 14.

I put the party affiliation in there because my Grandma's second husband was a feisty Democrat. And I do mean feisty--a card carrying Wobbly.

He signed up for every damn war there was (I, II, and Korean, IIRC). He spent time as a parajumper (I think they had wooden propellor panes back then, lol) and his 'civilian' time as a merchant marine.

Some socialist, huh?

09-07-2003, 07:14 PM	#16 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	My Grandfather was a Republican and a conscientious objector. He was drafted into WW2 but worked as some kind of medical staff on the front lines and decided to not carry arms. I think that was very admirable and heroic to face risks like that due to his beliefs. After his time he went to college on the GI bill and learned to farm--he was Native American with an 8th grade education. His tractor rolled off a mountain and crushed him when my mother was about 14. I put the party affiliation in there because my Grandma's second husband was a feisty Democrat. And I do mean feisty--a card carrying Wobbly. He signed up for every damn war there was (I, II, and Korean, IIRC). He spent time as a parajumper (I think they had wooden propellor panes back then, lol) and his 'civilian' time as a merchant marine. Some socialist, huh? __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman Last edited by smooth; 09-07-2003 at 07:19 PM..