-=> BOB BREED wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-   
      
    DD> I could go along with compulsory national service for all who wish to   
    DD> enjoy the benefits of citizenship. But, IMO, it need not be military   
    DD> service. But, the gummint should get to decide where the newly does the   
    DD> service. If it's a a mud-foot grunt humping a rifle and pack through   
    DD> some desert or jungle or if it's counting penguins in Antarctica it   
    DD> should count the same.   Bv)=   
      
    BB> That was my plan too.   CCC or peace corp would work for me, but you've   
    BB> read the objections. :)   
      
    DD> Read and dismissed them as extremely ostrich-like. Some folks are not   
    DD> fit/capable of military service - which is the big stick that the   
    DD> objectors have shoved. ram-rod like, up their backsides. But, everyone   
    DD> can do *something* for the good of the country ... and thus be invested   
    DD> in its success.   
      
    BB> But does it have to be under the umbrella of the military?   That is   
    BB> you must go into the military, and THEY decide what you do, that is   
    BB> they say the handicapped go count penguins.   
      
   Not under the umbrella of the military. I believed Ike when he warned us to   
   beware of the Military-Industrial complex. National service is national   
   service. We are not, at core, a militaristic society - although many of the   
   lock-stepping, goose-stepping right wingers would like to change that.   
       
    BB> Not in favor of that one - however I feel you should do something, and   
    BB> the best director may not be the military.  Fine point, but a very   
    BB> important one to me. (Being ex-Navy during the K war, I've seen the   
    BB> military in action - still have bad dreams when I recall the way   
    BB> decisions were made.)  :)   
      
   Bureaucracy gone wild - and with guns. I, too, did my hitch in Unc's Yacht   
   Club - although as an Airedale.   
       
    BB> Then ya have to decide about the gals - and that's the real killer IMO.   
      
   Yeah, if you get it wrong they'll kill ya. Or worse, cut you off.   Bv)=   
      
   My take on it is that women are people. No distinctions to be made except for   
   obvious physical differences.   
      
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