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LiberalArkie

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8. At least he had the balls to enlist, that's more than the rest of them can claim.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:36 PM

Oct 2013

At the time he enlisted he did not know what the future entailed.

I can't say much good about him, but he was more than a man than Bush II or Cheney or the the rest of the Chickenhawks.

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