"JimmyMac" <jimmymac_4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Apr 17, 2:39 pm, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
[...]
>> Unlike you, I give adults credit for knowing what they are doing and
what
>> they are getting into when they volunteer for military service.
>
> So, you realized that you were volunteering for cleaning filthy
> garbage pails and enduring field inspections? If so, why whine about
> it? Unlike you, I recognize that adults, thinking that they know what
> they are getting themselves into, are sometimes forced into make
> choices between unappealing alternatives and, in different set of
> cir***stances, they would make altogether different decisions. By
> your own admission, you volunteered for the Navy to avoid being
> drafted into the Army. Now that I have provided you with a personal
> example, perhaps you can now finally relate to what is an elementary
> concept.
I had heard about KP, but did not realize it went on forever in the Navy.
But that is a characteristic of a draft military. They can afford to waste
manpower because they have so much of it. I suspect when you were in
Vietnam
you did not spend all of your time cleaning things.
>> >> But even in a draft military, it possible
>> >> to arrange things so that it is highly unlikely that you will ever
end
>> >> up
>> >> in
>> >> a war zone.
>>
>> > You know nothing of what you speak, but that has never stopped you
>> > before. Where were you when the countless numbers were trying their
>> > best to avoid a war-zone. Where were you then? Arrange? Care to
>> > explain that? You volunteered for the Navy so as not to be drafted
>> > and have a choice of branch of service, just like some volunteered in
>> > an attempt to avoid a war-zone during war-time.
>>
>> All it takes is some minimum of brains. Too bad that lets you out.
>
> A gratuitous insult is no substitute for reason and/or argument. Care
> to take another (less diversionary) crack at it? I await your answer.
It is merely bad luck that some end up in a war zone and manage to get
themselves killed. That is the price you pay for wanting to kill the
enemy.
You and I are not warriors. But there is never a shortage of such types -
thank God!
[...]
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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