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To: Ilaine who wrote (28224)	2/6/2004 5:38:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793892

Everybody had the opportunity to join the Guard rather than be drafted. That's not the way it was, at least in my little part of the world. I don't know anyone who made it into the Guard although many tried. Slots were full and you had to have super connections. Most everyone I knew just stayed in school, and stayed, and stayed and marriage also worked for a while. I knew one person who went to Canada. I met another much later who did time rather than report. My husband got a regular Air Force commission out of ROTC, which he was in before the war was an issue, volunteered more than once for Viet Nam, and was never sent. Since Bush's service is a hot button for partisans, I will compare my husband's service to Kerry's. My husband might have been a hero had he been in a situation that called for that, but he wasn't ever in that situation. He didn't take any steps to avoid it--it just didn't happen. Qualitatively, there is no comparison between my husband's service and Kerry's. There is an obvious difference between ordinary honorable service and heroism.

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