People forget how many war vets actually organize protests against wars.....they assume it's just hippies protesting
I have friends who served active duty in combat. One of them was a Ranger. One of them was a First Sargent in the ONG. None of them feel the way that you do.
You are probably right. I feel the way I do probably because I saw more people shot BEFORE I served than WHILE I served.
When I was in the Army you could find a wide range of people with a wide range of views except almost everyone said FTA, especially when the recruiting sergeant tried to get you to re-up.
We had some really nice conscientious objectors in one of my units. One guy refused to go to Vietnam. He was ordered there. He refused the order and went on a hunger strike. They stuck him in the stockade and put him on bread and water. He still refused to go. They put him into the hospital and stuck a feeding tube down his nose. I was his armed guard. We sat and listened to the Moody Blues for hours on an Akai tape recorder that you usueally found only at the PX in Vietnam, I don't know how he got it. Finally, they dragged him kicking and screaming, literally, on the airplane. I never saw him again. Nice guy but a little goofy. Hope he made it back alive. I ran into two guys I went to electronics school in NJ, in Vietnam. Nice guys, who went like I did because we were ordered to do so, but they had less of an affinity for guns than me. At least I grew up with guns. As a kid, I was always taught that guns were for hunting which I did some hunting with my dad beginning when I was about 11. My dad taught me never to grab a gun in anger.
All my guys were volunteers. I suspect that my parents generation is very different, with so many people drafted to go fight in a war that they wanted no part of.
No, Kate Brown can indeed decline. https://apnews.com/eb13b0b5f6344af7...quest-creates-opening-for-governors-to-say-no
