rightwinger
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I joined the Corps in 1956. I hadn't received my draft notice but it was a matter of time. Also, my father's Army unit was among those that relieved the Marines on Guadalcanal and his praise for the Marines all over the Pacific planted the Gung Ho seed in me.
I was in from '56 to '60. Peacetime. I've always regarded my service as a duty and I consider myself very lucky because my Inactive Reserve obligation ended in '62 and I thus avoided the Vietnam debacle. Because neither that nor the current outrages in the Middle East have anything to do with preserving our freedom. Nothing!
Further, I have no doubt that if the draft were still active Bush could not have gotten Congressional approval to invade Iraq.
It is not the role of the military to decide its mission. If you disagree with the mission, talk to the politicians. That does not change the simple fact that our military is the defense of our freedom whether you like any given mission or not. Its very existence is a defense, and the people who raise their hand are the reason it exists. Your argument simply demonstrates the sacrifice they make, because they do so knowing some politician may throw their life away.
Do you mean freedom or security?
If you mean freedom, which freedoms have they been protecting? The right to vote? Free speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom of the press?
Which freedoms of ours have been threatened and what did the military do to protect them?
Yes. All of those things are protected. You don't have freedom without security. All of our freedoms are threatened all of the time. If you don't get that you have never opened a history book, or didn't understand what you read.
I have opened many history books
At what point in the last 200 years has someone threatened to invade our country and take away peoples freedom of speech, assembly, right to vote, freedom of religion or press?
The only times in the last 200 years those freedoms were threatened, it came from within, not from an invading force
I misspoke. I should have said read. In response to your question, WWII our territory was not only threatened, it was invaded. The only reason we were not over run was because of our military. The reason no one has made any serious attempt was because of our military.
The reason they made no serious attempt at invading was because they couldn't
Hitler could not invade England and it was only 25 miles away. He didn't have a Navy. It took thousands of landing ships for D Day. Neither Germany or Japan had the naval forces or logistics to support an invasion of the continental US
Now, during WWII, when were our freedoms threatened?
They were threatened from within. FDR and the courts denied Japanese Americans their freedom and the military was not there to protect them