Jim Weir wrote:

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.

No balls at all, Weir.

No doubt your abilities would have been of some use to the nation in
Viet Nam, too. You let "[t]he engineer on the next desk" essentially
take your place and he came back the worse for it.

Maybe your anger is just cover for a guilty conscience.


Jack