I am 73 years old and I'd venture to say that my great grandparents go back 170 years (my dad goes back over 100 years)
the question is still valid, what does their service in the U.S. military have to do with my qualifications to run for office????
Besides the obvious, of Mitt’s father trying to be a war time president while his son is avoiding the draft in France, and then that son, trying to become a war time president, while his five military age sons avoid military service.
There is the fact that conservatives started looking at this odd situation and then discovered that the family has always avoided military service, not that they had physical problems, or skipped a generation or two, but that it was a firm, dedicated family tradition, since the Romneys are dedicated anti-conservatives, it is a disturbing revelation to learn about this record.
Also you don’t know much about your family and it’s military service, so you can hardly show that it has a perfect, uninterrupted record of non service since they arrived in America, as the Romneys have, unless of course, your grandfather was the first one here.