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ashredux

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Sat Nov 20, 2021, 12:02 PM Nov 2021

If you are currently in a national guard unit.... [View all]

If you are currently in a national guard unit, you are going to have to make some difficult decisions.

You will not be facing hippies and students protesting a foreign war. Students who might throw rocks at you. You’ll be facing insurrectionist, armed people who wish to overthrow our democracy. This will not be a Kent state. They will not be throwing rocks. They have AR-15s.

I was in the National Guard in 1970. To take action against your neighbors, even if you disagree politically, is not easy. This is different. The neighbors you will be facing want to kill you.

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