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.
LOL, I shouldn’t have brought up the Romneys and patriotism and Utah on this 4th of July evidently, even on a thread where states and patriotism are the topic.
Especially to someone who evidently feels so much guilt, that he can only think of himself when he read post 24, well, himself and that someone dared reveal a negative about the Romney family.
No one in Mitt’s line has ever served us in the military during that entire 173 years, no war, no draft, no wave of patriotism, not even two generations of of his family seeking to be Commander in chief during war time (Mitt and his father), could get the sons of the candidates to enlist, Mitt even avoided a draft.
Mitt’s family moved to Mexico permanently, because they rejected the United States, and Mitt’s father was born there.
Here are Mitt’s sons, while he campaigned to lead America in war, in the Middle East, just as his father had campaigned to lead us during the Vietnam War (as the anti-war republican), while Mitt avoided the draft.
The family tradition has never been broken, and as you can see in the article, this is normal for the Mormons of Utah.
Get over yourself, you have your own conscience to live with, and I didn’t post about you, and I don’t know your family history, I posted about the Romneys and Utah people not serving.