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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (2755)	1/8/2001 5:30:11 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Poet, thanks for your post to me. I will get to that later as I have limited time (or mind) right now. Of more interest to me is your post concerning service in the military and being personal. I went back to doublecheck and saw no BFD in a post from you. I did see a humorous gibe at what is a common theme of holding up military service as... something. I saw no dishing of said service. I do have a problem with military service being used as a reason that someone has more say or understanding about something. Surely there are some things that others can not understand fully, as there are things in my history that most can not understand, as well. but I lived in Denver on the day of the Columbine incident. The day is frozen in memory from the moment a co-worker walked into our office, ashen and crying, to tell us what was happening, to walking home that day in a world eerily still with the few who were out all looking in shock, to sitting at a local pub watching the endless coverage, crying with the others, to visiting a makeshift shrine of flowers and handwritten notes in the park a couple of days later on my walk home from work again. I think those families in Littleton would be hard to convince that they have any less say or understanding on the issue of guns than someone who served in the military. And I don't personally know anyone who served in WWII or Vietnam who talk the way I have read many on SI do. Of those, some own guns but are very careful with them, others will have nothing to do with them. And none of them throw military service up as a way of undermining another. But that's just personal experience. :) It does make me wonder whether some of these people have really served or not.