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 From: donw102@shaw.ca 
  
 "CalgaryBill"  wrote in message 
 news:9RHGd.98703$8l.84638@pd7tw1no... 
 > 
 > "Peter White"  wrote in message 
 > news:ZiGGd.213064$Np3.8936865@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... 
 >> There was some other guy Ikey somebody. 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> Don Wagner wrote: 
 >> >  wrote in message 
 >> > news:1105911628.864007.140910@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... 
 >> > 
 >> >>"Press your nose and make a buzzer sound" Glen 
 >> >> 
 >> >> 
 >> >>The question was: "How many Presidents have fought in combat in 
 >> >>the 
 >> >>last 200 years?" 
 >> >>. 
 >> >>The answer is still "zero". No Presidents have *ever* been in 
 >> >>combat. 
 >> > 
 >> > 
 >> > In no particular order 
 >> > 
 >> > Garfeild 
 >> > George Bush 
 >> > Gerald Ford 
 >> > U.S. Grant 
 >> > Benjamin Harrison 
 >> > William Henry Harrison 
 >> > Rutherford Hayes 
 >> > Andrew Jackson 
 >> > John F. Kennedy 
 >> > A. Lincoln 
 >> > William Mckinley 
 >> > James Monroe 
 >> > Theodore Roosevelt 
 >> > Zachery Taylor 
 >> > 
 >> > Nixon, Ford and Johnson were all in WWII and may or 
 >> > may not have seen combat 
 >> > 
 >> > Jimmy Carter was in the Navy and may have seen service 
 >> > in Korea 
 > 
 > Ulysses S. Grant was a 'lead from the front' general, at times, 
 > during 
 > the U.S. Civil War.  Some suggest that was only when he was drunk, 
 > but I 
 > think drunk was his normal condition, so that idea can't be correct. 
 > How that isn't combat action, I don't understand. 
 > 
 > Kennedy WAS in the Navy, and saw action in WW2 in the Pacific 
 > Theatre. 
 > See his book "Profiles in Courage" for more info.  Or doesn't the 
 > poster 
 > consider naval action to qualify as combat action? 
 > 
 > Dwight D. Eisenhower was in military service (army) in both WW1 and 
 > WW2. 
 > He was the top American leader in the European Theatre in WW2, and 
 > was 
 > in the field in WW1 (saw and participated directly in combat 
 > action). 
 > Like Grant, he was later nominated for president (by the 
 > Republicans) 
 > and elected. 
  
 I left out Eisenhower as he did not take part in WWI (never left the 
 U.S) 
 And never was a field commander. 
 > 
 > Wagner was partially correct ... no American president, while 
 > serving as 
 > president, participated as an armed combatant in combat action (that 
 > rules out Lincoln's visits to the front).  That, however, is 
 > probably 
 > not the interpretation he wanted made about his post. 
  
 That's correct, I didn't intend it to mean sitting presidents. 
  
 Don Wagner 
 > 
 > 
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