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jenny14 75T  
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10/1/2014 7:07 pm

morii

This post is a great reminder of things and people past....

Thank you


A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Jenny


prpackaged 80M  
740 posts
10/2/2014 5:07 am

Certainly brings up memories for me. Boot camp introduced me to two different people. One had heart surgery as a child and should not have been drafter yet stepped forward when that letter came for him. The other had little or no way of avoiding the draft. I met him later while I was finishing college. It was good to talk with him and remember good times and bad from our past. He had returned to school but was kind of bored. He managed to get accepted by two colleges and one junior college. He was taking twelve units at each college. Math indicates a grand total of 36 units for each semester. His GPA would put any republican or democrat to shame. He would not have qualified to enter college by most standards yet managed to enter (thanks Uncle
Sam for the tuition) and to succeed. So many of us served without rancor and without complaint which colors my perception of all these politicians that claim to be Veterans but only as a ploy to get elected. I wish that would look to serve rather than look to profit.. I give up. Talk all we want but we will not find a politician to elect that is not first and for most interested in him/her self.

The blackest lie is a partial truth that leads you to the wrong conclusion.


kb1971 58M

10/2/2014 1:35 pm

Nicely done on the post. I don't believe you have had to serve to be a good leader, but it may help the president to have that special quality as being someone who served to help them make those hard decisions. They may not make those decisions based on what the advisors report,but because they may have that special understanding on what it intails being in uniform, and having a finger on the pulse of the men, and women they may have to send into harms way. Maybe serving in the military gives that needed understanding in discipline, leadership, and working with those who may oppose their leadership. Take care

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will suprise you with their ingenuity."~ Gen. George Patton



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