Do they never learn?

[docwebster]

So I hear the Powers That Be are considering bringing back the draft. Are they so out of touch with reality they think it'll be any more popular or work any better than the last time we were in a vastly unpopular war?

I do hope nobody decides to prattle to me about patriotism. My great grandfather was in WW1, my grandfather Irving was in a tank at D-Day, my father was in Thailand the day I was born, and I myself would have been a United States Marine (no, I'm not kidding) if that blessed football game my senior year hadn't occured and perforce turned my left kneecap partially into kindling.

I love America. But what galloping neo-conservatism is turning the "United" States into is rather an unpleasant place.

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[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Show these pups how it's done, eh? *grin*

Think they could use a civvie in Armed Forces Radio? I'm 38 with a bad back and bum knee, so I'm right out for actual recruitment, but I just wondered.