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8. The difference is your brother doesn't claim the street cred needed to be CiC ...

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:44 AM

Aug 2018

or go around belittling those who did serve without a draft hanging over them. The biggest reason I enlisted was so my dad wouldn't be able to shut me up at the dinner table discussing the war. And that was when I was twenty.

The poor don't get bone spur deferments or ass boil deferments like Rush Limbaugh did. We do what we have to do and we don't bray about it or lie.

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