George McGovern, an unabashed liberal voice, is dead

[chuckstevens]

44. I voted for him in 1972

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As a second grader in 1972, I was the ONLY kid in my Republican dominated suburban public school to vote for you. I look back at that vote, as proudly as any real vote I would later cast in my life.

Thank you for trying to stop an ugly, needlessly violent war that accomplished nothing but the deaths of over 58,000 young Americans and probably 1 million Vietnamese civilians. It sickens me that the Nixon campaign got away with portraying you as a coward when you flew extremely dangerous bombing missions over Germany in WW II, while Nixon sat behind a desk in the navy. Republicans have gotten away with this same BS for 40 years, Max Clelllen, John Kerry, etc.

God bless and I'm sure some of the 58,000 were there to greet and thank you when you arrived in heaven.