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To: LastShadow who wrote (24798)	11/12/1999 4:55:00 AM
From: AlienTech	Read Replies (2) of 43080

What about us pot smokin' draft dodgers? Today I get to acknowledge and thank the men and women who served in VietNam and got spit on and insulted by everyone in this country when they came back . . . those of us who stayed home and protested the war because protesting the war was the thing to do . . . the feelings from those days are still present in our politics and in our individual identities. I didn't know shit I just knew I wasn't the type to put on a uniform and get my ass shot off in the jungle so I went to college. In those days for anybody here who didn't live through all that shit if you went to college you got deferred, and if you didn't go to college you got drafted and sent to VietNam to get your ass shot off in the jungle. The corruption from that value system -- college kids and grunt meat -- underlies 90% of our current day politics. Nobody has ever forgiven anybody for anything that happened back then and this country's still all ####ed up about it. Well I'm just another kid who went to college and smoked dope and dodged the draft and protested the war and partied my way through about seven years of college, and today it's for me to say thank you to the people who went because somebody had to, because even if the government doesn't know what the fuck they're doing you can never be certain of that so when they decide to send people, somebody's got to go. And today we remember every person in every war who died -- who gave their ####in' life in some foreign place nobody ever heard of before they got the notice to go over there and fight and die -- every one of those people who died so that today I can sit around in my house and make money and spend it on pros####### and talk about it on the computer. People died so I could sit here and do this. It makes me think that while I am here I might try to do something in the world worthy of what it took to get me here. That I might once in a while remember that when I'm doing my work, or going to the store, or just being alive. That people put on uniforms and went places that nobody heard of for reasons that nobody understood and died just so I could sit here. I thank everybody who ever put on a uniform for their country, for this country. And for those who died . . . I remember you. I can never repay you. Except to do whatever I can to keep making this the kind of world where people -- even if it's through the sometimes distorted collective action of government -- care enough about each other and the world to do that. Doc

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