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Dave Gloden wrote:
> 
> > :Maybe writes:
> > :> Not a fact. Your incorrect opinion.
> >
> > :My opinion is incorrect? My opinion is my opinion.
> >
> > :> It's men who are marched to war
> > :> to have their bodies destroyed. (I guess "my body/my choice" doesn't
> > :> apply to military service for MEN ONLY, does it?) It may not seem very
> > :> important to you that men's bodies are being destroyed, since it's not
> > :> your body, but to a lot of men who have been lamed, or have lost their hands, or
> > :> lost their eyesight, it's pretty important. And it may seem like a nuisance
> > :> that wounded veterans may have special needs that impact on our economy
> > :> when they returned from war. (Now that they've done their job, they're no
> > :> doubt disposable to you.)
> >
> > :Hello- where have you been? Military service has not been compulsory for 20 years!
> HELLO- where are you from?  It is still required for 18 year old MALES
> to register for Selective Service.  I don't see any feminists trying to
> make it mandatory for females as well.
As one who has been there don't that got the T shirt, I just wish that
no one has to go.  Yes it has been the men who went and served, but
there is an old saying that goes, "thoes who stand and wait also serve. 
I have been on enough burial details for those who did not come back" to
know that the death of a father, a son, or a lover may be worse than the
death of a soldier.  For when those who you have shared your life with
die on the field of combat, a little bit of you dies also.   

No I do not subscribe to the my pain is greater than your pain theory,
for I have been there and believe me there is more than enough pain to
go around.

Jim (Viet Nam class of 1965-1966)