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To: Rome2000
>> his family has avoided military service for over 150 years

Now your just making stuff up. On his paternal side he had ancestors in the Mormon Battallion which has the US Army record for longest overland march in history. On his maternal side he has military ancestors and relatives who served as well.

His father George Romney was 34 years old and had 3 children the outbreak of WWII. During the war he was managing Director of the Automobile Council for Wartime Production. He traveled extensively in pursuit of wartime production goals. The Wartime Production Automobile industry produced 1/5 of all WWII war materials. Converting auto industry to military vehicles as well as bomb shells, fuses, machine guns, artillery, AA guns, etc. George Romney contributed invaluable service to our wartime effort.

In the words of Norman Schwarzkopf "amatuers talk strategy professionals talk logistics".

Mitt Romney (and his Father) understand and follow Reagans approach to the military, “You can’t have a superpower military without a superpower economy.”

He raised Mass National Guard benefits more than any other Mass Gov. in history.


103 posted on 08/15/2008 5:23:43 AM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Rameumptom
On his paternal side he had ancestors in the Mormon Battalion which has the US Army record for longest overland march in history.

That was in the 1840's just like I said, over 150 years.

Somehow he and his immediate family have managed not to serve in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, or Iraq II.

I find that astounding.

Families like his with such a cowardly record of non service to the nations armed forces are hard to come by.

Disgusting.

109 posted on 08/15/2008 4:22:42 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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