> Me (Gord):
> >>I'm puzzled how you mean "he was probably right", could you clarify
> >that?
> Dan:
> >IMHO, the guard commander would be more than happy to let the son of a
> good
> >conservative UN ambassador slide on that one. I think Bush knew what he
> >could get away with.
>
> Okay, I get it. That's probably true -- though it would be morally wrong,
> in a nation where all are equal and there isn't, say, a kind of morally
> priviledged aristocracy, right? :)
> *poof*
Yeah but that's the way it is too. Think about this: one of my
cousins was working and listening to the radio as the draft lottery was
going on, during the Vietnam war. (They picked numbers for your birthday
like Jan1 gets 209, Jan2 gets 55, Jan3 gets 6, and the lower numbers are
called up.) He said that if his number came low he was going to be out the
door and headed for Canada the second he heard a low number for his day. He
had his car packed and ready to go. Why? Because he had numerous fights with
his dad (who was a W.W.II veteran and had seen lots of fighting) about the
war and wanted his sons to go. Meanwhile my father, also a W.W.II veteran,
told my brother to do everything possible to stay out of the war.
I work with someone who was in the national guard during the war. He
was poor and knew the only way to try and stay home was with the guard. He
also said there were ten people who were from rich families, who'd show up
in the morning, wouldn't do a damn thing all day, and the officers looked
the other way, and would go home at night, not staying with the unit.
It was and still is a bad fact: the poor fight and the rich don't.
Gore wouldn't have gone if he hadn't dropped out of college. Did Gore go
thinking that one day he'd be running for Prez? Did Clinton or GWB? Based on
military service Ventura or McCain or Bob Kerry (sp) would be best
qualified. It's bad now because all candidates have to 'look good' to all
people. This is especially true for veterans because they probably vote in
greater percentages (I'm guessing). And that's where the fudge factor comes
in.
Kevin
