I give you the 173 history of no one in Mitt’s direct line ever serving America in uniform, including Mitt avoiding military service and even the draft as he claimed to support the Vietnam war, and his father campaigned for president, and point out that his five sons did the same thing, and I connect that to the Mormon state of Utah being 49th in enlistments.
And your come back is “I’m not sure you can make anything of the fact that none of his family volunteered to serve after the draft ended.”?
Wow.
Ansel, what percentage of families in America have served?
I respect that service very much, but I still think you’re painting with too broad a brush.
I note you didn’t comment on the fact I haven’t served.
I considered myself very fortunate to have gotten a lottery number of 352 out of 365 in the closing days of the Vietnam War. Does that make me an anti-American?
Much is made of all the people who volunteered for service in WWII. I don’t think everyone did. Those that didn’t, are they all unAmerican?
If one guy isn’t guilty for having taken a pass on service, then nobody who took a pass on service is guilty of something vile.
Would I respect it if one of them had served? You bet I would. Am I going to trash them for not doing so? No.
Perhaps I’m in the vast minority on this, but that’s my take on it.
Romeny and his family didn’t work to betray this nation to my knowledge. They didn’t help the enemy or pass secrets or try to defeat our efforts. Not seeing any of that, I’m not convinced you’ve got the smoking gun you think you do here.
Not trying to be mean about it. I’m just trying to be fair to a family I’ve never been particularly impressed with.