Military Service Records?

Note that virtually all those opposed to the war in Iraq have military service records. The supporters virtually unanimously do not! Pass it along.

For the benefit of current college students, the opposition to the Viet Nam war finally mounted when all became subject to the draft. Until January 1970 all those who had remained in college or graduate studies had been exempted. I well recall the shock of the draft threat to college students based on lottery results by birthday that January, as I was teaching as a visitor at Barnard and Columbia and doing my philosophy of law course at CCNY. We were then approaching 58,000 dead and, of course, many more were wounded in that horror of a pointless war. I had been preparing myself to fight in the Korean war with NROTC training in college, but was fortunately exempted by the end of that one. Ed Kent

>>> >>>>> Democrats:
>>> >>>>> * Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
>>> >>>>> * David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
>>> >>>>> * Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
>>> >>>>> * Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an
>>> >>>>> army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
>>> >>>>> * Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
>>> >>>>> * Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
>>> >>>>> * John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with
>>> >>>>> Combat V, Purple Hearts.
>>> >>>>> * Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
>>> >>>>> * Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze
>>> Star,
>>> >>>>> Vietnam.
>>> >>>>> * Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
>>> >>>>> * Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
>>> >>>>> * Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve
>>> 1979-91.
>>> >>>>> * Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven
>>> >>>>> campaign ribbons.
>>> >>>>> * Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs,
>>> Bronze
>>> >>>>> Stars, and Sol dier's Medal.
>>> >>>>> * Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver
>>> Star
>>> >>>>> and Legion of Merit.
>>> >>>>> * Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
>>> >>>>> * Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam;
>>> >>>>> Bronze Star with Combat V.
>>> >>>>> * Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
>>> >>>>> * Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
>>> >>>>> * Chuck Robb: Vietnam
>>> >>>>> * Howell Heflin: Silver Star
>>> >>>>> * George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
>>> >>>>> * Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered
>>> draft
>>> >>>>> but received #311.
>>> >>>>> * Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
>>> >>>>> * Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
>>> >>>>> * John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18
>>> >>>>> Clusters.
>>> >>>>> * Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by
>>> >>>>> Raoul Wallenberg.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Republicans -- These are the guys sending people to war:
>>> >>>>> * Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by
>>> >>>>> marriage.
>>> >>>>> * Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Tom Delay: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Roy Blunt: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Bill Frist: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Rick Santorum: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Trent Lott: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach
>>> business.
>>> >>>>> * Jeb Bush: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Karl Rove: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who
>>> attacked
>>> >>>>> Max Cleland's patriotism.
>>> >>>>> * Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Vin Weber: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Richard Perle: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Douglas Feith: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Richard Shelby: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Jon Kyl: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Christopher Cox: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
>>> >>>>> * George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National
>>> Guard;
>>> >>>>> got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend
>>> >>>>> running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical
>>> >>>>> exam, disappeared from duty.
>>> >>>>> * B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over
>>> in
>>> >>>>> Korea.
>>> >>>>> * Phil Gramm: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit,
>>> Purple
>>> >>>>> Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
>>> >>>>> * Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * John M. McHugh: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * JC Watts: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued
>>> in
>>> >>>>> NFL for 8 years.
>>> >>>>> * Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
>>> >>>>> * Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * George Pataki: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * John Engler: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
>>> >>>>> * Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> * Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat
>>> role
>>> >>>>> making movies.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Pundits & Preachers
>>> >>>>> * Sean Hannity: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
>>> >>>>> * Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Michael Savage: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * George Will: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Chris Matthews: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Paul Gigot: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Bill Bennett: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Bill Kristol: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Ralph Reed: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Michael Medved: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
>>> >>>>> * Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that
>>> don't
>>> >>>>> shoot back.)
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> * John Wayne: did not serve.
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