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DemocratSinceBirth

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2. Here's my story.

Reply to StrictlyRockers (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 24, 2017, 09:38 AM

Sep 2017

I had a buddy who recently passed away. He had Bronze Stars from Korea and Vietnam. He was a black guy that joined the military in 1950 at the age of seventeen. I asked him how he could fight for a nation that treated him as a second class citizen, He said he fought for the ideals America represents.

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