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QUOTE: "would be great, BUT our list of who, and what would excempt..i.e. fat,gay,stupid,lesbian,illegal, ..."
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Follow up: We are standing in the Recruiting Center in Kansas City (1969). Some volunteers/enlistees, some draftees, all branches represented (standing in our separate groups), almost ready to board the busses to the airport.
In walks a Marine Sgt. ...talks with the guy in charge, turns to us and says, "Which of you are Marines?" Our group raises our hands. He looks at our (few) number. Says, "Who is here because they were drafted?" Many hands go up in other groups. He walks over to the largest group that was headed for the Army. Looking them over, he points to four of the tallest, most fit examples: "You, you, you and you ...step over there ...you just joined the Marine Corps!"
One guys legs collapsed and he sank down ...had to be helped to our group.
PLEASE ...NO mandatory military service for the timid!!!
EDIT: One more and I'm done. We had a draftee in Nam that when on leave, told us he would not be back.(??) He robbed a bank and went to jail rather than return to the bush. (see above plea)
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Don't fear the reaper.
Last edited by Mo_Gearhead; 04-22-2008 at 01:35 PM..
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