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To: Lane3 who wrote (97731)	1/30/2005 9:38:25 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793750

I see. You are strung out about burquas (and so would I be if that would ever be a requirement. So would I be if that was a requirement. I'd probably be dead already, because I would have shouted as loudly as I could at the idiot who made that rule.) You are also strung out about the draft/conscription. To that last, you know I am not in favor of a draft. BUT when Japan hit Pearl Harbor, we had under 500,000 men in the military, and without looking it up, I think the number was about 350,000. We had 16 million people in the Armed Forces by the end of the war. It does seem to me that we would have even less time today, with the weapons as they are, to be able to train men and women of EVERY age to protect themselves, as well to protect the Nation. Therefore, I would think it would be better to have that training in advance of a problem, rather than after the fact. Interesting art work here.... wildgoosecreekstudio.com The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, in stating the purposes of a new supreme law of the land, in part, reads as follows: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense........" In 1987 we commemorated the Bicentennial of the Constitution. Twenty-two American army veterans of the Revolutionary War were numbered among the delegates who signed that hallowed document. Those veterans were both patriots and leaders, who not only fought in the revolution, they preserved their victory by drafting the Constitution, a "most remarkable work," and creating a new government for the recently "united" states. They were adamant that government’s authority to exist come only from the People themselves. The Constitution created a military to "provide for the common defense," to safeguard our precious individual liberties. "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." Thomas Jefferson, 1806 This scene depicts more than two hundred years and countless generations of men willing to serve the cause of freedom. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their forefathers, these latter day defenders of liberty and Constitution are certainly patriots and leaders in every sense of the words. In 1987, artist Frank M. Thomas allowed the Army Office of Public Affairs and the Secretary of the Army’s special Constitutional Bicentennial staff to employ this artwork, his two hundred year grouping of soldiers, in the Army’s observance of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. This art saw worldwide use by the Army.