If I'm not mistaken, he would have had to lie about his age and enlist because soldiers during that era were drafted at age 19 and sent to Vietnam with the draft and the war not ending until 1975, the year I turned 18.
As I remember it I got my draft notice on my 19th birthday so at 17 he lied.
mwdegutis wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, he would have had to lie about his age and enlist because soldiers during that era were drafted at age 19 and sent to Vietnam with the draft and the war not ending until 1975, the year I turned 18.
As I remember it I got my draft notice on my 19th birthday so at 17 he lied.
There was a 17 year old, almost 18, or so he professed, in my Boot Camp Platoon who had his parent sign for him but he did not go to Korea with others that did.
There was a 17 year old, almost 18, or so he professed, in my Boot Camp Platoon who had his parent sign for him but he did not go to Korea with others that did.
Stupidity is rampant around here, you two know nothing.
Yes Hanoi Jane that Bitch did not help a bit as did not others in Hollywood the cesspool of the USA. It is hard to fight a war if you have to call and get permission to shoot back but that is the Democratic view of how it is done. Don't forget the inflated body count that Huntley Brinkley and Walter Cronkite use to spout out to the Nation. Lets face it we got our asses handed to us by an inferior force due to political correctness. We cant bomb North Vietnam cities like Hanoi we may hurt a civilian that is aiding the VC, that is cruel. It still is going on today is the sad part.
Yes Hanoi Jane that Bitch did not help a bit as di... (show quote)
Jane should have been in prison all these years for aiding and abetting, and should still be there.
If I'm not mistaken, he would have had to lie about his age and enlist because soldiers during that era were drafted at age 19 and sent to Vietnam with the draft and the war not ending until 1975, the year I turned 18.
No one was in the military at 17 unless they lied during enlistment, and even then there were checks.
Sad fact is that had the democrat party leadership, i.e., LBJ, permitted the military to do what it does best- wage and win wars- there would have been far, far, fewer casualties both ours and the poor indigenous. But that democrat moron tied one hand behind the backs of our generals and applied his (LBJ's) political amateur opinions as how to wage war.
Our troops won that effin war three times and the political assholes of the democrat party threw the victories to the communists.. defaulted.
And jane fonda and that wimpy bastard she hung out with were the 'winners'... all honest Americans were losers. You all remember that fonda B**ch sitting in a communist anti-aircraft quad, right?
Sad fact is that had the democrat party leadership... (show quote)
Please substitute PROHIBITED in place of "permitted"... (edit.., thank you.)