On 12/17/2012 1:36 PM, ESAD wrote:
On 12/16/12 11:20 PM, Tim wrote:
On Dec 16, 9:26 am, iBoaterer wrote:


I have a brother who is living proof that you can set yourself up for a
darned good education and life via serving in the military. He's a
chemist working for a large pharmaceutical company.

I have a very good friend who while in the navy worked with
electronics on ship. Got a lot of on board and hands on training. He
later used the GI bill and furthered his education. And has owned
several lucrative businesses that were based on his military training
in electronics.

In life, he has does very well for himself and is quite financially
secure.

He told me this about his 3 yr. hitch in the Navy:

"Tim, all I can really say is that I got a lot more out of them than
they got out of me" And to this day he has absolutely no regrets
about his tour of duty.


Two of my Connecticut friends didn't have a chance for regrets, since
they died in Vietnam. Another came home a basketcase and had lots of
regrets, as he shot himself in the head 15 years later. And these losses
for what? To help prop up a corrupt dictatorship in South Vietnam, to be
pawns in the game of the U.S. military/industrial complex? Certainly not
for any valid reasons, and not to "serve one's country," because our
country was not "served" in that debacle.

I was thankful I had a student deferment for a number of years of that
idiotic war, and never got the letter from my draft board ordering me to
report. So I never went to Vietnam in a uniform.


Instead you got a crappy education at a jerkwater Kansas third rate
college. Betcha that made Mama Krause proud.