apmom wrote:
Really AZ? My father was in the service for 20 years, joined at the age of 16. He retired a young man because he didn't like what he called the "new military". Lack of respect and discipline was his reason. He didn't want his medals either although he earned every damned one of them. He saw no honor in killing children, men and women that were innocent. He also discovered, after he retired, that many of the promises made to him when he joined were lies. He never could tolerate a liar. Does that make the years of service, during active wartime, in a war zone (not safely tucked in DC giving orders to go out and kill more people) less valuable to the Country? Does that make the hundreds of lives he saved with little equipment and supplies, that less valuable?
Not at all, I have no doubt your father served honorably for 20 years and his opinions are hard won and deserve respect.

But that doesn't change the fact that John Kerry's four year military record, self admitted not wanting to be "involved with the war" while on active duty and subsequent anti-military actions after his honorable discharge were not the best things to base a presidential campaign on.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson