At 10:01 AM 5/28/01 -0500 Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
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>Which reminds me....
>
>In WW2 my grandfather, a country doctor in the best Dr. "Bones" McCoy
>tradition, enlisted and was assigned to a ship in the Pacific Fleet. He
>had a wife and two young children, but he felt it was his duty to do what
>he could--it was (comparatively) easy to train infantry, I suppose, but
>harder to train doctors in the numbers needed. So he went where duty
>called him, and he never came back.
>
>I believe Dr. Julian O. Long gave his life for his country.
Whew! For a moment, Marvin, I was worried that you had become almost
impossibly cynical. (based on your previous post on the subject.)
And for what its worth, I agree - and I thank your grandfather for his
contributions.
JDG
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"Compassionate conservatism is the way to reconcile the two most vital
conservative intellectual traditions: libertarianism and Catholic social
thought."
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