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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:36 PM Original message |
Poll question: Whoever leads a productive, honest life is ''serving their country'' as much as a military person. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. True, not everyone can or should serve in the military |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. Vet here, tech schooled/partied with all branches for one summer in Denver, not everyone who |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Exactly. It's a job. It's available. It pays on time. -nt |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Entreprenuerial is not a word that would describe these people & that assessment is based upon |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. I taught special ed |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. Work should be more honored than it is. It IS looked down upon by certain types, some of whom |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. John F. Kennedy Quote |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Then John F. Kennedy was dead wrong about that. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Viet Nam War. - When there are Americans who have died, are dying, will die, NO ONE can just go, "Oo |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. That would be news to Franklin Roosevelt and his father. n/t |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
6. I think the willingness to die to defend one's country takes it a step beyond |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. How many of the military actions |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
22. But how many are actually willing to die for their country? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. I'd include firefighters and police in my definition of serving. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 08:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Do you think our invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan helped your safety? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 01:16 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Iraq--no. Complete 100% waste of every person and resource. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 11:39 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I respectfully disagree. |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. i work with a bunch of older ex-military folks. |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Same here and I've known hundreds, maybe thousands, of military personnel. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. The KC Star did a story along those lines. Just asked several recent enlistees and printed what |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Back when, the AF ran a survey of the troops. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. I joined because I liked the people my Air Guard Fire Department husband was |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. I spent 4 years in the Marine Crotch doing absolutely nothing of benefit to my country. |
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raouldukelives (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. Virtually everyone is serving the corporations these days |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
28. 1+++++++ |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
13. Ever see that Chris Rock bit about "I take care of my kids!" |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:32 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Hey, take a look at this: |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. For me, I was drafted in 1966. My friends got married or went to college. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Thank! You! 1++++ |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 07:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
37. ''...if you didn't do either of those you were a leach.'' |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
18. Sounds like something a chickenhawk college republican would say |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. i don't know, i didn't vote, but i tend to think that isn't really fair |
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mwrguy (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. They are well compensated |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. And despite what many people will say, the actual pay isn't all that |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 03:48 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. A lot of them volunteered to have a job, to get an education, to just |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. They're protecting the right to drive gas guzzlers? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. I'd like to see figures on how many actually experience danger in any way other than |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I fired the 16 exactly once in 21 years. |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-23-11 07:04 AM Response to Reply #29 |
42. What exactly would you base those figures on? |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 08:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
39. When was the last time the military actually "defended" our country? |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. I went in the military in 1960 because I didn't know what else to do. We were |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. I deal with this issue all the time with my govt. classes |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-22-11 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
38. Most people in the military are badly mis-used. Their efforts go to prop up U.S. corporate power |
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