Posted on 03/21/2023 9:07:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I still want to know if Allen Fay ever reported to the information booth.
My father volunteered for Vietnam in his late 20’s when he join the 101st airborn and came back with a bunch of shrapnel embedded in his spine that plague him with back pain for most of his life. Nixon ended the war just as I turned 18, but if it had continued I would have remained in college until it ended to avoid the draft. I’m the opposite of my father, I don’t do wars for empire.
Your goal was to avoid military service not the draft, have you succeeded in doing that?
Your dads duty notwithstanding
That simply is not exactly true
The Warren court which ushered in so much reformation was my grandparents generation in power and I’m 65 now and remember Woodstock well
Likewise hippies and hippies are too different animals
The Alinsky acolytes were the yippies
Rubin Hoffmann and Rudd and Hayden and Dohrn etc
Leadership was Mostly upper middle class Jewish urban kids from left wing since landing here families and a couple of goys like Hayden and Ayers thrown in
Those fomentors of todays left were not boomers
They were my folks generation born between the Greatest and boomers
LBJ power which started so much entitlement was foisted again by my grandparents generation at peak power
Those born 1900-1915 or 1920
One thing you can blame boomers for is sex and the dismantling of sound mores
Them and the Pill
Last note
A lot of wokeness is new ideology
Obsession with race and feminism and trannies and queers
The yippies grew out of civil rights activism so there is that link
But they were chauvinist to the core and often in it for the celebrity and punani
Abbie Hoffman horn dog he was admitted it
But a lot of woke excess is simply new
Evolving tools for the neoliberals to destroy the West and Christendom
I doubt I would do will in the military, I wouldn’t follow orders if I disagreed with them.
That wouldn’t be a problem, the military has been making kids grow up for 100s of years, I think the real problem was exactly why you avoided military service.
You’ll get a kick out of that 18-second video from post 29.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJvP5juvGuI
Oh, and what do you think is the real problem, that I’m not stupid enough to become a pawn in these wars for empire? Sorry but I only do defensive wars, my sense of morality wouldn’t allow me to do anything else.
Then you go to the Brigg for a long time
Well then so be it, I live by certain principles and would accept the consequences before being forced to violate them.
Nothing would get you into the military, and nothing ever did, now you are old and must keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel good about your reasons.
Ass kicking 101
Then the fools age and run the government.
Wonder why we are in such a mess?
Your dad was in his 20s when he volunteered for Viet Nam, and you were worried about getting drafted to Viet Nam? How old was your dad when you were born?
I was the first born, my mother had me when she was around 19. I’m not sure of the exact age my father joined, I was told he was 29 or so when he enlisted. I didn’t live with my father past age 4, he was a violent alcoholic wife beating scumbag who deserted my mother after she was in a serious car accident that left her with brain damage. He left her with 3 very young children with one in the oven and never paid a penny in child support. I didn’t see him again until he contacted me when I turned 18. I was in college at the time and would have been eligible for a sizable stipend from the government because of his service but he never told me about it because he was mad that I didn’t want to be his buddy. Like I said he was just a total dirtbag.
The numbers still don't add up! There is no way in h*ll - age-wise - that you could have been at risk of being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War if your father had been young enough to have fought in the Vietnam War.
It would have been possible only if your father had been, say, 14 years old when he sired you. Then it would have been barely possible.
America's involvement in the Vietnam War simply wasn't long enough for multiple generations of soldiers to have fought in it.
Regards,
“Three whole days of peace and love and joy!’’
I grew up in Upstate NY at the time and never heard of Woodstock until it was over. From what I’ve learned it was a NY City crowd mostly.
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