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No, you weren't wondering anything.. You were talking out of your *** and i called you out.
I honor the service of your family . And stolen valor does not apply to you whatsoever. But your family memvbers' service is what it is and does not add weight to your opinion. Why? The fact is that in spite of that history, you did not follow them and serve.
You took a left-handed shot at at a long serving combat vet from Vietnam. That's ********.
How were you raised differently? You said that you were. How?
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Lol, yes you clearly know the intent of my posts better than I do.
I never said it added weight. You asked me about my family history and I told you. It would be one thing if I just offered that information up out of the blue to lend credence to my stance, but I didn't.
I was raised to think that killing innocent people isn't acceptable and you can infer it from the second sentence of what you just quoted, as well as the statement in the 2nd paragraph about "appropriate actions."
Ned doesn't need you in here mounting your steed for him. He didn't seem to have any issue with my light barb, especially since he didn't even take the bait, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to jump in.
Lol. Lot's of words. Ned may have not have had an issue, but I did. Your comment about being raised differently, is ******** so how were you?
I'm commenting because i want to. So, just to level-set, you served where? how?
hey guys, don't argue over me. I served and am proud of my service and my accomplishments. I recognize that everyone has their own perspectives on war, service and whatever. I don't think there is anyone who enters combat that wants to kill, - be it an enemy soldier or especially civilian. But I can tell you, when the firings begin, the thoughts, at least my own, immediately reverted to my training and my survival.
By the way I raised to respect life too. In fact, I can say, anyone who was enthusiastic about going into a combat situation scared me.
EDIT: I really didn't have to go...one of the crazy rules back then was that a family only had to have one member in the combat zone at a time. When I went, I already had one brother in the infantry and one in the navy in the zone. But my father, a naturalized citizen, felt that as a family we owed the country...so, while he didn't insist, he encouraged, me to go as ordered. I went...
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Yeah having a family member serve is no where close to the same as serving. In fact, it’s totally irrelevant and not even in the same ballpark.
It's not my fault you're incapable of understanding what I said. You probably should've put down the bottle and sobered up a bit.
You can make that claim to support hitting hospitals where they care for military personnel. It’s stupid.
There is nothing about serving that makes a person inherently honorable. There’s nothing about not serving that makes one less honorable. The same is true for every profession. I never even had to register for the draft and I don’t regret for a single second not having to serve.
Plenty of shiddy people have served in the US military. Many others have done shiddy things. The No Gun Ri massacre in Korea and the My Lai massacre immediately jump to mind. US troops fired on civilians because… orders.
The real hypocrisy comes out when those who use their mere service as a “badge of honor” turn around and denigrate the service of someone like John Kerry. There is nothing in the service records of the Swift Boaters that make them “honorable.”