Now they all raise their hands and say "No I was in Vietnam too!"
Hypocritical Bastards.
Me thinks the line that was cut from Ferris Beuller says it best.
FERRIS
My uncle went to Canada to protest the war, right? On the Fourth of July he was down with my aunt and he got drunk and told my Dad he felt guilty he didn’t fight in Viet Nam. So I said, “What’s the deal, Uncle Jeff? In wartime you want to be a pacifist and in peacetime you want to be a soldier. It took you twenty years to find out you don’t believe in anything?” [snaps his fingers] Grounded. Just like that. Two weeks. [pause] Be careful when you deal with old hippies. They can be real touchy.
The draft evading Mitt Romney “I was not planning on signing up for the military.”--“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam"
Presidential Hawk, Mitt Romney “I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”--“Greatness in a people, I believe, is measured by the extent to which they will give themselves to something bigger than themselves,” Romney said in a Memorial Day speech last week in San Diego.
"If it wasn't a political blunder to move into Vietnam, I don't know what is," a 23-year-old Romney would tell The Boston Globe in 1970 during the fifth year of his deferment.
Well said!
Back in 2003 I was waiting in baggage pickup at Detroit Metro airport, having just returned from a ski trip to British Columbia. There was a girl waiting with me who was on her way back to college somewhere in Ohio.
We got to talking and she proceeded to tell me that her parents were originally from the U.S. but fled to British Columbia when her dad got his draft notice. She was talking as if it was somehow a badge of honor, not knowing that I was a Vietnam vet who had enlisted.
I was stunned and didn’t say a word. The more she talked the angrier I got and while driving home from the airport I started yelling all the things I should have said to her in person……..People like that make me sick