"Jim Weir" wrote in message
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Then, Jay, you are a generation behind me. You didn't SWEAT your ass
going to
some rice paddy in Vietnam. You didn't LIVE your life hoping against hope
that
your draft board wouldn't haul your ass out of college and send you with a
rifle
to some country that you couldn't have given a rat's ass less about.

Me? I got lucky. My draft board thought that my work on Apollo was "in
the
national interest" and I got a deferment. The engineer on the next desk
wasn't
so lucky; he came home less his left arm.

You have absolutely no chops to criticize Kerry unless you were in the
Vietnam
draft mix. You were not. Shut the hell up.

Lots of us blasted the behavior of our country at that time. This country
was
wrong. We had no business being over there.

You wanna blast me? Come on. Take a piece of me. So far as I am
concerned you
are a stupid jackass that DIDN'T serve in the military, that WEREN'T
subject to
the draft, and have absolutely no CONCEPT of what either Vietnam, Iraq I
or Iraq
II are all about.

Well, Mr. Weir. Take a piece of me, then. Blast me if you wish. Although I
was not in the draft mix (my number was 284), I signed onto the Air Force
anyway. I believed we were right and I still believe that. In any event,
Kerry had no business saying that everybody serving in Vietnam was a bunch
of war criminals. He did not have to meet with communist leaders. He did not
have to raise money for an assassination attempt on senators.