My mothers father, my father and two of his brothers served in Vietnam. All of them volunteered to go. My grandfather and father are gone now no lowered flags for them when they passed, but a draft dodger gets his.
You're a mere child. My Ol' Man lost his leg in the Battle of the Bulge. I was in Vietnam. I despised Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay for his claim of a conscientious objector. That was his right, I defend that and I have changed my opinion him in the years since. He did demonstrate the faith of a Muslim is a peaceful faith. He never advocated for war, terrorism or anything else.
I believe that he, like many other top sports professionals, he took on a couple opponents too many. That was sad. Although he did a lot to call attention to Parkinson's Disease, decades before Michael Fox.
Unlike Rev. Jerimiah Wright, Rev. Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Father Pflager, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr., King Samir Shabazz, Van Jones, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Andre Carson and others, Muhammad Ali was a moderate role model for the Muslim faith. Tragically, Parkinson's disease took his abilities to be a leader much like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr..
