J. van Baardwijk wrote:
<JDG>
>>But what about the millions of dead Americans who gave so much more than
>>you ever have in defense of those causes?
>
>Has it occurred to you that Kat is too young to have fought in any of
>America's wars? But of course, being a war veteran yourself, you have the
>right to feel superior to Kat. Exactly what war did you fight in, again?
And, of course, as a gurl I'm exempt from the draft, and even should a
war come around that I would *not* consider myself morally obliged to
protest (something I cannot forsee happening in the near future, but who
knows) they probably wouldn't take me, since I have a history of athsma
and am nearsighted as hell.
But let me just emphasize, once more, that I am *not* dissing the folks
who fought in *any* war, be they brave defenders of freedom or unwilling
draftees. They fought and they died and it meant a lot to them, and I
would never, *ever* question that. And FYI, I used to live next to a WWII
POW. I didn't get as much of a chance to talk to him as I would have
liked before he died, but he was one of the neatest people I've ever met-
and one of the most sardonic towards the American government, as well.
Kat Feete
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"What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone?
The real work's already been done. You ought to make
yourself useful and go find the man who put the sword
in the stone in the first place."
--Terry Pratchett
