[Rhodes22-list] Political: How California liberals treat a warhero

[Herb Parsons]

There's more than one incident, but here's one of them:

http://www.arguscourier.com/news/news/marinegrad050601.html 


Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
1976 O'Day 25
Lake Grapevine, N TX

S/V Reve de Papa
1971 Coronado 35
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast

>>> DCLewis1 at aol.com 7/19/2006 7:44:22 pm >>>

Philip,
 
How about sourcing your story?  You know, an explicit link so  that we can go 
to the source of the story and evaluate it's credibility.
 
What I find a stretch is that for a young man to complete basic in any  
service he has to commit 24/7 for at least 6 weeks, and that training is often  
followed by additional 24/7 mandatory special training.  Which means  he's not 
going to high school because he's tied up in the military.  So if  he's not 
going to high school, how's he graduate with his class?
 
Your story might be true.  Maybe he was a year ahead of himself so  he took 
his last semester off, and timed his completion of basic, and  leave, with 
graduation - maybe, but not simple.  For this to work the  Marines have to take 
him prior to grad - maybe, but not sure.  I think they  would ask him to 
graduate from high school first, I believe there's a  recruiting premium on high 
school graduates.
 
Also, your story presumes a high school that's hostile to the military,  but 
my experience is that high schools are typically not  anti-military.  Some 
colleges, universities, and grad schools are, but not  high schools.  Every high 
school I've ever seen has tried to vector a good  number of their grads to the 
military - because they think the youth will do  well in the military.  My 
experience may be unique, but it makes me wonder  about your lead in statement 
"And then there was.....".
 
There's a simple way to resolve the issue raised above for the benefit  of 
the board, cite your credible source.  Give the board the link to  the story and 
let us assess the credibility of the reporter and the story.   You may be 
right, maybe it did happen once upon a time, but we won't know  until  you give 
us a credible link.  That link is????
 
Moreover, the entire board will be interested to know how what may, or  may 
not, have happened once somewhere can be construed as  "These  incidents are 
prolific in Liberal Land".  The board awaits your reasoned  and factual 
response, for example some statistics to support your claim,  together with the source 
of those statistics might be appropriate.  We're  standing by.  
 
Dave
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