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Originally Posted by Rochard
I disagree with you here.... You are looking through history and judging it decades later, and then trying to imagine what you would have done then - but you are looking at it through the lends of a forty or fifty year old man, not a college student in the 1960s.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Back then in the 1960s protesters didn't see a difference between soldiers and the government; They were considered one and the same. Soldiers were considered "baby killers" that worked for the government. When the soldiers of Vietnam came back home they were crapped on, treated very poorly, and for the most ignored.
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Very true, but I know me, and I know that I wouldn't do it. There's no way I could pretend to know what those people went through. I've never even held a gun except for a hunting rifle (I didn't hunt) so there's no way in hell I could pass judgment on any soldier. What would be important to me is that he or she is back home and safe and hopefully not messed up.
This is yet another eason why I think Trump is a total bullshitter, especially on this subject. He dodged the draft - I'm actually Ok with that). What would impress me though, would be for Trump to say "I was afraid to go to war. Its cowardly and I'm ashamed but its the truth". Then you know that if he followed that up with any kind of praise for any soldier, McCane or other wise, that he would actually mean it. I don't think he can do it.