Old soldiers never die, they just smell that way.
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 18 07:07:57 UTC 2014
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:
> But, somehow, the feminists aren't complaining about being left out.
>
They're complaining about being left out of combat. Besides, the draft
doesn't mean today what it meant in 1955, when I registered. The word,
"draft-dodger," is obsolete. Mention the word, "draft," nowadays, and
people think "NBA" or "NFL" and not, "I hope I don't get called."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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