[Rhodes22-list] Draftdodger/cowards

[Steve]

Rummy
I reconize you patoratism.  But people that will not
serve thier country when this country needs them to is
a cowards.  And running off to Canada makes them a
deserting cowards.  They is simple no way to roses
this up.  Whether I have served or not makes no
differents.  You been listening to Kerry to much:-)
When you run off and hide; that being a coward. 
Steve


--- R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

> My dear Friend Steve,
> 
> For one who is to young to have been part of the
> Vietnam era, you certainly 
> are quick to judge and label. Granted, there
> probably were a few people that 
> went to Canada because they were scared and didn't
> want to die. As a Vietnam era 
> vet, I won't hold it against them. People have a
> right in this country to 
> disagree with our government and if they don't like
> it, they have a right to 
> leave and live elsewhere.
> In 1970 I was a private stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC
> when I received my orders 
> for Vietnam duty. When I went home on leave prior to
> shipping out, I was 
> pressured and given the opportunity by family and
> friends to move to Canada and set 
> up a new life if I had wanted. They offered tens of
> thousands of dollars to 
> help me. They were very persuasive, but I was up for
> an adventure and went 
> anyway. I personally know people that went to
> Canada. Not all were cowards. The 
> draft boards in those days weren't so considerate of
> conscientious objectors, 
> even for religious grounds. 
> Until you have been there and had to face those same
> tough decisions, don't 
> be so quick to label people as cowards. I don't know
> if you are simply 
> attempting to stir up the list again, as is your
> usual mode of operation, but there 
> are several hundred people on this list, not all
> share you viewpoints, tolerance 
> of others views is what freedom is all about.
> 
> Rummy
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