Murdered State Department official Sean Smith was influential gamer

Yahoo Blog ^ | September 12, 2012

[xrmusn]

My son is in the Army right now. I have not met a finer bunch of young men that is the VOLUNTEER military force of today.
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Sorry, I am not trying to be ‘down’ on the fine young men and women that have given and are giving their time, efforts and in some cases all, to carry on the tradition of keeping us the ‘Land of the Free, Home of the Brave’.
Regardless of their sexual persuasion or lack of it.

I am concerned with what the future holds.

I come from an era of when the draft was still in effect, MEN did the fighting (as we were taught), I enlisted at 17 and some 40 years later I had to listen to a ‘REAL LIFE DRAFT DODGER’ try to excuse his own actions by claiming that all who ENLISTED VOLUNTARILY during a period when the Draft was in effect, were Draft Dodgers, JUST LIKE HIM.

And we are still spiraling downward.

Again, jdsteel, I apologize if you thought the ‘negatives’ were ‘directed’ at you or any other volunteer etc...

[jdsteel]

Please don’t misunderstand; no offense taken. As I said, I think it is a real ray of hope in a dark time that our young men are ready, willing and able DESPITE all of the cards stacked against them. Since it is a volunteer army the patriots are the ones volunteering, with few exceptions.