The Gadfly
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- Feb 7, 2011
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You dodged the draft too ass wipe.
I played by the rules.
Responded to my Selective Service notice in Sept 1971 - around my 18th birthday.
Went to an SS office - filled out the forms etc.
Then let the chips fall where they may.
Didnt evade anything - unlike draft-dodger clinton.
Liar, you are a fucking coward who skipped out on Nam and than have the nerve to call the guys who served their asshole cowards, you deserve to get a good punch in the fuckin teeth for such ugly disrespect.
Easy there, HG. I don't like some of his comments and attitudes (and wonder who he's talked to or what he's read to give him some of the ideas he has) but he can't help when he was born, and had he been drafted, or even if he had enlisted, by then the conflict was winding down, and he would likely never have been sent there. He doesn't appear to have burned his draft card, run off to Canada, or tried to get a deferment he wasn't entitled to. He apparently played by the rules, and fate handed him a break. I can't hate him for that; and what difference would it make if I did? It won't bring back any of those who died, and it won't change the experiences of anyone who was there. What none of us should want is to let what happened in America during Vietnam and since be the model for how we handle our wars now and in the future. We've paid a heavy, bitter price, among those who went and those who did not, for identifying the soldier with the war. Unfortunately, instead of learning that lesson, we seem to be continuing the fight. It's time to stop. It has to start somewhere, and so, before I cross over that last river, I'm going to do my best to let it go; Vietnam is over, and it's time, past time, for the war here at home to end.
As for you, ginscpy, I hope you will stop to appreciate the break life has handed you. But for timing, nothing more, you could have had to make decisions you never had to make; decisions you had to live (or die) with. You have been spared the moral choice of going to war. You have been spared the horror of combat; you have not had to see it, hear it, smell it, taste the fear of it, or live with it ever after. Your life has not been ended, or forever changed. It is OK. I would not wish that burden on you, or anyone else, even though I know others will have to bear it now, and in the future, as I have, as so many have. What we did, we did in part so you and others would not have to; so before you judge, criticize, comment or condemn, I want you to do what I do, when I stand at the graves of my fallen brothers, and wonder whether the life I've lived, after they gave theirs, was worth their sacrifice. I want you to look at your own life, and what you have done with it, then look at us, and honestly reflect on whether what you have done with that break you got was worthy of what we went through. If so, fine; if not, well, you still have time to make it right. That's it; that's all you owe us, the living and the dead; but you do owe that.