Originally Posted by
Moose-Knuckle
So you just troll about military service in a thread about the poor and downtrodden. Mmkay.
Well. if you recall, you were the one who inspired me to tell my narrative for society, so I don't get the troll - I have always felt that universal service would make our society stronger.
Well my grandfather and four of his six brothers did serve for the duration of WWII and my father enlisted for Vietnam prior to the draft. When they and my uncles (who are Vets) heard I was talking to a recruiter my senior year they all about shit kittens and gave me a talking to.
Sounds like your family did better than mine, I helped ours catch up, both my sons joined. Be grateful that they had the experience in the service that helped them understand it wouldn't be a good fit for you.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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