Letters to the Editor 09-30-2004
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Bring Back The Draft - Gun Ban
Bring Back The Draft
Editor, Times-Union:I would like and answer to this question - Just what is wrong with reinstating the draft?
Right now our armed services are made up of weekend warriors (which I have no problem with by the way), kids who have gotten in trouble with the law and were given the choice of the armed services or jail. Guys and gals who can't find jobs or want the schooling which is given in the service (but are not in the service to be in combat) - and a few good men and women who are in the service to serve their country.
We wonder about all the crime that has occurred in Iraq with the inmate situation and then with men and women coming back from duty and not able to deal with combat fatigue, etc. Most of these people were unable to deal with anger issues before they went into the service, so don't expect it from them with they get home.
But back to my initial question - I come from a time that the draft was just the expected norm. No it was not something any of the guys in my class or friends circle anticipated with glee but they knew it was their civic duty and did it. I would not want the draft to include women because I truly do not believe women should be in combat! Forgive me but anytime you coed anything there is trouble and women are not in any way equipped to stand the rigors of battle. And don't use the argument that we give birth and can handle anything. I did not say we couldn't if we had to, I said I do not believe our service in combat should be coed and the rigors of living the way you do in battle is something women should not do.
You can give me a hard time all you want about this but you will not convince me otherwise and sorry, women have a much bigger job here at home. That is to sustain the family and country. Ask any woman who lived during World War II and see how important their contribution to the war effort was. Without them there would have not been a home to come home to. The women who served, served in a capacity as they did also in Korea and Vietnam as nurses, office personnel, etc. Again, a much-needed area and I have nothing against their serving this way. But not in combat. Sorry, it is just not where women belong.
But again I stray. I want to know why reinstating the draft is such a naysayer. I think we need to do this to sustain our armed services and to eliminate the excessive amount of time our men and women are now serving all over the world.
Our men and women are doing a terrific job in Iraq and elsewhere, let's give them the needed support in manpower.
By the way, I have two wonderful grandsons and several nephews and cousins who would be now and eventually be draft age. No I would hope there would be no war for them to go to but I also would hope that they would want to serve a country that has given them so much.
Phyllis L. Barger
Warsaw
via e-mail
Gun Ban
Editor, Times-Union:Hey Matt, why don't you tell all your readers the difference between an AR -15 and a Mini 14 and which was on the Clinton gun ban and which wasn't and why.
You've got all the answers Matt so tell us all about it. And while you're at it you can explain to everyone just what President Bush had to do with the ban expiring when he has clearly stated for more than four years that if Congress passed an extension of the bill he would sign it.
It wasn't President Bush that killed your idiotic bill Matt, it was Congress, including most of your Democrat friends. Many of them were around when the bill was passed in 1994 and watched a lot of their friends lose their jobs because of it. Except for a half dozen rabid Senators not up for re-election, nobody wanted to get involved especially since the whole thing was nothing but a joke in the first place.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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Bring Back The Draft
Editor, Times-Union:I would like and answer to this question - Just what is wrong with reinstating the draft?
Right now our armed services are made up of weekend warriors (which I have no problem with by the way), kids who have gotten in trouble with the law and were given the choice of the armed services or jail. Guys and gals who can't find jobs or want the schooling which is given in the service (but are not in the service to be in combat) - and a few good men and women who are in the service to serve their country.
We wonder about all the crime that has occurred in Iraq with the inmate situation and then with men and women coming back from duty and not able to deal with combat fatigue, etc. Most of these people were unable to deal with anger issues before they went into the service, so don't expect it from them with they get home.
But back to my initial question - I come from a time that the draft was just the expected norm. No it was not something any of the guys in my class or friends circle anticipated with glee but they knew it was their civic duty and did it. I would not want the draft to include women because I truly do not believe women should be in combat! Forgive me but anytime you coed anything there is trouble and women are not in any way equipped to stand the rigors of battle. And don't use the argument that we give birth and can handle anything. I did not say we couldn't if we had to, I said I do not believe our service in combat should be coed and the rigors of living the way you do in battle is something women should not do.
You can give me a hard time all you want about this but you will not convince me otherwise and sorry, women have a much bigger job here at home. That is to sustain the family and country. Ask any woman who lived during World War II and see how important their contribution to the war effort was. Without them there would have not been a home to come home to. The women who served, served in a capacity as they did also in Korea and Vietnam as nurses, office personnel, etc. Again, a much-needed area and I have nothing against their serving this way. But not in combat. Sorry, it is just not where women belong.
But again I stray. I want to know why reinstating the draft is such a naysayer. I think we need to do this to sustain our armed services and to eliminate the excessive amount of time our men and women are now serving all over the world.
Our men and women are doing a terrific job in Iraq and elsewhere, let's give them the needed support in manpower.
By the way, I have two wonderful grandsons and several nephews and cousins who would be now and eventually be draft age. No I would hope there would be no war for them to go to but I also would hope that they would want to serve a country that has given them so much.
Phyllis L. Barger
Warsaw
via e-mail
Gun Ban
Editor, Times-Union:Hey Matt, why don't you tell all your readers the difference between an AR -15 and a Mini 14 and which was on the Clinton gun ban and which wasn't and why.
You've got all the answers Matt so tell us all about it. And while you're at it you can explain to everyone just what President Bush had to do with the ban expiring when he has clearly stated for more than four years that if Congress passed an extension of the bill he would sign it.
It wasn't President Bush that killed your idiotic bill Matt, it was Congress, including most of your Democrat friends. Many of them were around when the bill was passed in 1994 and watched a lot of their friends lose their jobs because of it. Except for a half dozen rabid Senators not up for re-election, nobody wanted to get involved especially since the whole thing was nothing but a joke in the first place.
Harold Kitson
Warsaw
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