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Plucketeer

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5. I wrote to West Point

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 08:22 PM

Jan 2012

I told them I was a ONCE PROUD member of the military and a voluntee3r veteran of Vietnam. We supposedly were one nation under god at that time, and 50 thousand American lives were destroyed in pursuit of the NOTHING we "won" in the end. I confessed that I DO wear some denim shorts that originate there.

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