mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
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>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>I see. Who did that?
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>>>Kerry. Didn't even dodge the draft.
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>>Who called him?

Who called Kerry?

>>>Bush did, and there seems to be very reasonable doubt as to whether he
>>>even finished up what he chose as a way to avoid the draft.
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>>I find it very curious that serving in the National Guard is now 
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> "now"?
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> Sorry, but even back THEN it was considered dodging the draft, along
> with student deferments, etc. And not everyone was allowed to enlist.

Ok, so let me get this straight. While one's country is engaged in an 
action that is immoral, ignoble, and criminal, this is the ranking of 
things one can do from most to least patriotic:

1. enlist
2. go to Canada
3. serve in the National Guard

> Have you no knowledge of the times, Mr Gowens?

Enough knowledge not to yearn for their return.

>>considered the equivalent of dodging the draft. Too bad Kerry didn't 
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> You apparently weren't alive back then. Not curious at all.

That must be why everyone was calling Gephardt a draft dodger when he 
was in the primaries. Oops.

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership 
requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them; that 
one help identify the positive things that we learned about ourselves 
and about our nation, not play to the divisions and differences of that 
crucible of our generation. Amen.

- Kevin