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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Shame on me? KMGDA.
My position did not adhere to the textbook definition of a CO as that stipulates that you must be opposed on a moral basis to all wars at all times. I'm not a full time pacifist. There are times that if you don't stand up and fight, your life will be forfeit and your family enslaved.
However I did have a strong moral objection to what was going on in Vietnam. If I hadn't been a CO, I would have gone underground. I wasn't going to do anything under orders from the world record ass William Westmoreland. The CO route appealed to me as it gave the chance to state my reasoning before agents of the nation and to serve the country in some capacity.
You're going to tell me that Lt. Calley and all the others who didn't get caught who were burning down villages and slaughtering peasants on orders that they didn't have the good sense to refuse somehow accrued more honor than those of us who understood the biblical admonition "blessed are they who walketh not in the counsel of the un-Godly?"
The Red White and Blue does not confer unimpeachable righteousness.
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Absolutely, these men and women risked life and limb with many paying with their lives to burn down those villages and slaughter those peasants in order that self-admitted cowardly draft dodging frauds could play basketball with children while self-congratulating themselves for adopting the moral "soup of the day" which most conveniently suited their own selfish interest.
Once again you display the vacant integrity of a hypocrite when you near simultaneously attempt to justify past disgraceful conduct by quoting scripture so soon after taking the name of the LORD your God in vain, i.e.: Kiss My God Damn A&&.
For the record I sincerely doubt any of these fine Americans who answered the call of their country would even let someone like you kiss anything they hold near and dear.
There is at least some small consolation that even though many of these fallen men and women did not get the opportunity to pass on their brave DNA, at least they would be comforted that natural selection has thus far prevented you from passing on yours.