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Re: Unpatriotic Draftdogers
Posted By: Gortman64, on host 24.205.86.60
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 20:32:54
In Reply To: Re: Unpatriotic Draftdogers posted by TOM on Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 15:15:46:

> > I suggested the current poll question. I expected about at least 50 percent of the people to have enlisted or been drafted. I was *extremely* surprised when I saw 60% had never joined because they didn't want to. I myself plan to join the Marines or Army, and my father was two months away from Vietnam. I was just wondering why some of you people weren't interested. Was it a personal situation or was it you did't want any personal risk?
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> > By the way, I didn't mean the title, that was just to catch you're attention.
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> I'll be serving an intelligence unit someday. Because, well, I'm worth more to this country using my brain than my body.
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> Story, courtesy my AP US History teacher:
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> A kid he once had as a student had his sights set on being a meterologist, for whatever reason. He wanted to go to Syracuse University, certainly not a cheap school. He went to the Army recruiting office to enlist in the Army, because he knew he could get the money he needed for college that way. The Army recruiter looked through his records, interviewed him, etc, and basically told him the following:
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> "You're way too smart to be a grunt. Here's some money. Go to college. Become a meterologist. When you come out of college, you'll have a job with us, meterologistising. (WORD INVENTED BY ME IN CASE YOU COULDN'T TELL.) You'll contribute a lot more to our country that way."
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> So my AP US teacher unwittingly talked me out of enlisting, and got me decided on going to either the CIA or FBI or some other U.S. Intelligence organ someday. Because I'm too smart to be a grunt.
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> The Other "Nothin' but the facts, ma'am, nothin' but the facts." Matthew


I'm exceptionally smart for my age, and all the wise people forsee a great academic future for me. Yet, I'm going to become a grunt, and then a professor of somehting like that. My pops went to the Army, and he got a Ph.D., but he was drafted, so it was a little different.

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