Re-plub-blicans take controll of the Senate, But NOT in New Hampshaaaaaaa !

[EastUS1]

 
I have a personal friend who fought the Vietnam War on the frontlines of Las Vegas at Nellis AFB working on 111's.....supporting the war effort, is his service for our country any different?

 
It was indeed different. The Aardvarks needed skilled mechanics, wherever they were at the moment. Your friend wasn't seeking any "out", and I'm sure would've gone to the combat theater if/when ordered. He wasn't some conniving jerkoff just looking for a way to avoid combat zones and finish up law school.
 
He received an early discharge for optic neuritis."...And yet...he doesn't seem to have gone at all blind to this very day, while no small number of glasses-wearing 2nd LT's then somehow managed to successfully lead platoons in battle, too often at the cost of their lives...?

 

[delldude]

So you didn't support him?
 
I'm not a Senators son.

 

[EastUS1]

So you didn't support him?
 
I'm not a Senators son.

 
I'm very pleased to see people finally getting fed up with the current bunch of half-azzed communists' complete BS, but I don't care at all about petty politicians. I'm an aged creature who's only at all realistic wish for government is that the worthless bastards stay as far away from messing with my life, and those of people I care for as much as possible. We'll see what changes, if really any, now happen. If there are ANY sane actions actually taken?...Then I'll applaud.
 
I don't subscribe to BS politicians' pretenses towards "patriotism" and American ideals, so we'll all have to wait and see just what's actually done here. I would, for at least once in my life, love to see a bit of my experience-based cynicism proved completely wrong. Properly deporting the millions of "undocumented democrats" and securing our borders would be a nice starting point...Repealing obama"care" yet another, and the list goes on. Do you really think the so called-but-in-name-only "republicans" will do either of those? I hope so, but only hope at this this point.

 

[MCI transplant]

Well said East!!!

 

[Knotbuyinit]

P.S. "Hmm...let's see now; do I do law school or actually fight for this country I supposedly love?...Hey!...I've got it! How about some bogus "military service" with an amazingly quick medical out, instead of ever exiting a Huey in a hot LZ? It's ALL about America, after all..and I'm just that much of a true Patriot!"  Sigh...He's hardly the lowest washington dc has to offer, by ANY means, but I can't really find many reasons to raise pom poms and loudly cheer for him. He's just another frikkin' "career politician." Should the currently illegal border crashers be deported, our borders secured, a whole lot of fundamentally American Rights be suddenly, magically and properly respected, rather than continually attacked by BOTH parties,..well...then I'll bring out the pom poms...I've just seen this movie far too many times over the years to get easilly excited anymore...
 
Having said all that; I AM pleased to see even a slightly rising public trend towards the rejection of virtually out-right communism take place. America was not designed nor ever intended to devolve into some wholly pathetic "Democratic Socialist State."  Historically; far too much serious "voting" with blood's been done to at least hopefully, always prevent that.

Whereas I agree with many of the things you are saying, it's hard for me to fathom how anyone in their right mind would expect a guy who had polio as a child and diagnosed with Optic Neuritis as an adult could ever be expected to "exit out of a Huey in a hot LZ"? With that being said and despite his physical shortcomings, he took it upon himself to enlist into the US Army reserves and for that I thank him for having the courage to do so. Maybe you should educate yourself about Optic Neuritis before making comments that suggest that glasses would have cured this condition.

 

[EastUS1]

Whereas I agree with many of the things you are saying, it's hard for me to fathom how anyone in their right mind would expect a guy who had polio as a child and diagnosed with Optic Neuritis as an adult could ever be expected to "exit out of a Huey in a hot LZ"? With that being said and despite his physical shortcomings, he took it upon himself to enlist into the US Army reserves and for that I thank him for having the courage to do so. Maybe you should educate yourself about Optic Neuritis before making comments that suggest that glasses would have cured this condition.

 
"...a guy who had polio as a child and diagnosed with Optic Neuritis as an adult could ever be expected to "exit out of a Huey in a hot LZ"? With that being said and despite his physical shortcomings, he took it upon himself to enlist into the US Army reserves and for that I thank him for having the courage to do so." You simply can't have it both ways. If childhood polio was physically debilitating for him, then either he signed up under false pretenses, or he was physically qualified to fight. I was born into the age of polio at it's height in the USA. I personally knew of no children attacked by it that weren't permanently crippled...not a nice disease at all.  I made no suggestion that glasses at all cure optic neuritis. I merely observed that no shortage of visually impaired officers have fought well in the field.
 
"Maybe you should educate yourself about Optic Neuritis before making comments.." Maybe you should. "Most people who have a single episode of optic neuritis eventually recover their vision. Treatment with steroid medications may speed up vision recovery after optic neuritis."   http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/optic-neuritis/basics/definition/con-20029723
 
"People who have optic neuritis without a disease such as multiple sclerosis have a good chance of recovery."  "Vision often returns to normal within 2 to 3 weeks with no treatment."
 
Knotbuyinit: "...I thank him for having the courage to do so." To each his own sir. I can't find even the slightest reason to loudly trumpet that fellow's supposed "courage".  Being merely a lawyer and "career politician" hardly argues for anything of the sort. A friend referred me to the story of a young pilot trainee, still in undergrad/pre-Wings, that was hit by serious cancer. For many months he underwent the torments of hell it's self/chemo/etc to both regain his health and amazingly be reinstated in the program....Just sayin'...