Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Reverenddel wrote:And this sumbeyatch has 50%+ of the populace FOOLED!

Reverenddel wrote:Please Dear Lord Jesus... Please hear our prayers father... Holy Spirit I beg you... DO NOT LET THAT LONG-LEGGED COMMIE WIN AGAIN!!!!

I was 11 years old when Reagan got into office.

And I cried when I discovered i would never be able to vote for him. Loved that President. I have a lil' ceramic bust of him on my bookshelf. If his library wasn't in the People Republick of California, I would have visited by now.

He won the Cold War, he brought down the Berlin Wall, he had Tip O'Neil over for dinner, and they laughed, drank bourbon, and were CIVIL to one another! THAT is what's missing in politics! Civility!

mk4 wrote:...is wasting his... no, OUR, time yapping with the chuckleheads on The View.
we're frickin' hosed.

When the draft came, despite political convictions, I was having a hard time facing the prospect of fighting a war I had been fighting against, and that is why I contacted you. ROTC was the one way left in which I could possibly, but not positively, avoid both Vietnam and resistance. Going on with my education, even coming back to England, played no part in my decision to join ROTC. I am back here, and would have been at Arkansas Law School, because there is nothing else I can do. In fact, I would like to have been able to take a year out perhaps to teach in a small college or work on some community action project and in the process to decide whether to attend law school or graduate school and how to be putting what I have learned to use. But the particulars of my personal life are not nearly as important to me as the principles involved.

After I signed the ROTC letter of intent I began to wonder whether the compromise I had made with myself was not more objectionable than the draft would have been, because I had no interest in the ROTC program in itself and all I seemed to have done was to protect myself from physical harm. Also, I began to think I had deceived you, not by lies - there were none - but by failing to tell you all the things I'm writing now. I doubt that I had the mental coherence to articulate them then. At that time, after we had made our agreement and you had sent my 1 - D deferment to my draft board, the anguish and loss of self-regard and self-confidence really set in. I hardly slept for weeks and kept going by eating compulsively and reading until exhaustion brought sleep. Finally on September 12th, I stayed up all night writing a letter to the chairman of my draft board, saying basically what is in the preceding paragraph, thanking him for trying to help me in a case where he really couldn't, and stating that I couldn't do the ROTC after all and would he please draft me as soon as possible.

I never mailed the letter, but I did carry it on me every day until I got on the plane to return to England. I didn't mail the letter because I didn't see, in the end, how my going in the Army and maybe going to Vietnam would achieve anything except a feeling that I had punished myself and gotten what I deserved. So I came back to England to try to make something of this second year of my Rhodes scholarship.

FiremanBob wrote:Kreutz, you probably voted for the rapist who dodged the draft by faking interest in ROTC to get a 1-D deferment, then writing this cowardly drivel to Col. Holmes

Kreutz wrote:...tl;dr, who was it? ...

SlickWillie wrote: Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you.

SpanishInquisition wrote:

Kreutz wrote:...tl;dr, who was it? ...

Here's your clue: