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   BOB KLAHN to BOB BREED   
   The Draft   
   12 Mar 12 02:59:34   
   
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    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?   
    BB>  That is you must go into the military, and THEY decide   
    BB>  what you do, that is they say the handicapped go count   
    BB>  penguins.   
      
    Or operate radios? Or fly drones? Or be clerks? Or monitor   
    security systems?   
      
    Hell, a lot of handicaps don't preclude sitting in a window of a   
    security position and shooting people climbing over the fence.   
      
    BB> Not in favor of that one - however I feel you should do   
    BB> something, and the best director may not be the military.   
    BB> Fine point, but a very important one to me. (Being ex-Navy   
    BB> during the K war, I've seen the military in action - still   
    BB> have bad dreams when I recall the way decisions were made.)   
    BB>  :)   
      
    We, the unwilling, led by the incompetent, to do the   
    unnecessary, for the ungrateful.   
      
    Old military saying.   
      
    BB> Then ya have to decide about the gals - and that's the real   
    BB> killer IMO.   
      
    That's the incentive for the men to serve without fighting it.   
      
    OTOH, they can kill people too. It's their right!   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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