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To: Road Walker who wrote (222060)	3/4/2005 10:34:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1576698

JF, To kill and be killed, to be forced to fight in a war that you knew was pure bull shit. I agree. We should never reinstate the draft. But wait ... whose draft is it? texasrainmaker.blogspot.com Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (222060)	3/5/2005 6:54:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576698

Your life has been free to choose your own path, not make decisions based on the government taking your ass into a combat zone. Interesting comment coming from you who supports a draft esp. when it is being made to someone who opposes the draft. I'm done with you. You are an anal retentive jerk that cares about numbers, not people. I care about numbers when the issue is numbers and about people when dealing with people. You seem to want to move from one to the other whenever the more relevant one is against your particular point. Like the old lawyers statement "If the facts are on your side pound the facts, if the law is on your side pound the law, if neither the facts nor the law is on your side pound the table." You have no understanding about the moral and ethical decisions, and social decisions involved for an 18 year old kid in 1967. To kill and be killed, to be forced to fight in a war that you knew was pure bull shit. Or to make other evasive decisions that were counter to your every moral fiber. Whether I do or not is entirely irrelevant to anything I have posted. If I had made statements against these 18 year olds or making light of their risks and sacrifice, or of their difficult decisions then what you say might be relevant. Since I didn't even vaguely hint of anything in that directions your comments only serve as a distraction from any real point and as a way to attack me rather then dealing with the issue. If you want to make the issue the difficulty that 18 year olds at the time faced then fine we can talk about that but it isn't what we have been talking about. Being there helps you understand what it was like being there but it doesn't make you an expert on anything remotely relevant to what happened at that time. If you were closer to the situation than you have a better understanding of what it was like for the people, but that doesn't mean that everyone must defer to your opinion on matters of plain fact that deal with Vietnam. Tim