Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> David H. wrote:
> > > > I agree. The movie is actually pretty good, you just have
> > > >to watch it the right way. View it as a propaganda film produced
> > > >by a state so warlike that only soldiers can vote...
>
> Alberto replied:
> > > No. Only _veterans_ can vote. Soldiers don't vote.
>
> David responded:
> > I appreciate the distinction. But once a soldier, always
> >a soldier.
>
> In the book, at least, not all veterans had actually been soldiers. Some
> had mopped floors or performed other such tasks, based on what their initial
> testing qualified them for. Basically, it amounted to being a veteran of
> public service more than of military service.
Sorry to argue definitions, but if the generals order you around,
you're a soldier. It doesn't matter where you are, or what you do.
To borrow the famous Patton quote, which might not have
been exactly as in the movie...
From: http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html
The General paused. His eagle like eyes swept over the hillside.
He said with pride, "There is one great thing that you men will
all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once
again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you
are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and
he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T
have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say,
"Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana."
No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say,
"Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a
Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"
---David
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