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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Suma who wrote (15524)	9/6/2004 4:36:39 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

Sorry wasn't around for those.... were you ? (:) NOT QUITE. :-) But claiming you had to be alive to discuss a war means that at least 99% of human history is out of bounds. Just knew the climate of those when I was alive and what I intended in my statement is that unless one lived through the wars I mentioned it would be difficult to understand or compare the climate of WW II,Korea and Vietnam with the current one. The climate of the current one is more like Vietnam. There was the divisiveness and anger in WW II or the Korean war as there has been for these last two amongst the American public. And now and Vietnam are beds of roses in comparison to the Civil War and very likely the American Revolution. That revolution was the definition of treason, remember? The US did more to populate Canada during the Revolution than at any time before or since. There were A LOT of American colonists who had no desire to stop being British subjects. Now am I not entitled to make such statements or must I assume the historians got it totally wrong? Per example these boards and poking fun at Veterans. I guess this is what I have a hard time with. THAT depends on which veterans. An army supply officer in the Pentagon is not the same as a guy who landed on D-Day and then was trapped in Bastoigne during the Battle of the Bulge. What we appear to be talking about here is a guy who got 3 wounds about equivalent to paper cuts or shaving cuts, claimed 3 Purple Hearts for them, at least one of which he put himself in for, and went home. Are the Army reservists during Vietnam who never left the country (and there were such) and never even got a paper cut not entitled to be called Army veterans? Was their service dishonorable? Kerry made 4 months of his life over 30 years ago the centerpiece of his campaign, not George Bush. Having done so, and having chosen to run for the Presidency, he had best be prepared for those 4 months to be examined under a microscope.