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To: FaultLine who wrote (27083)	1/30/2004 11:38:23 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

Kerry is playing up this as a strength against his immediate competitor for the democrat nomination - a draft dodging ski bum. This advantage is much less against his eventual rival in November, who also served in the military during that period.

To: FaultLine who wrote (27083)	1/30/2004 11:56:56 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

Ken, I think Gillespie set the right tone honoring his war record and separating that from the politics that come later and I think that we should all do that. The crap thrown at Bush about his National Guard service is just bile and returning it just doesn't serve any useful purpose. Bush did not go to Vietnam and did not face that stress or crisis of conscious and Kerry did - so on the military service front Kerry wins and we should leave it at that. I was not in Vietnam and cannot and will not question the actions of those that were. However, as a military brat, I saw the buses taking the wounded from our airfield to a nearby Army Hospital every week. They went right by my school. My father served in combat in both WW2 and Korea, but had deep reservations about Vietnam - maybe not for the same reasons as the protest movement - but reservations just the same. We treated our Military and our soldiers poorly during that period and much of the anxiety and animosity in our politics on military issues these past 40 years has been the result. John