@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
coldjoint wrote:
Walter Hinteler wrote:
coldjoint wrote:]Do you know Clinton's and Obama's excuse for not serving?
When the draft ended Jan. 1, 1973, Obama was 11 years old then.
Clinton didn't "win" in the draft lottery in 1969.
Why didn't they join?
In what branch of the service did you sign up? John Birch? Proud Boys? AmericanFreedom Party, Dixiecrat party-party founder Strom Thurmond or maybe Oath Keepers. Tasty.
Did I ever tell you guys that I met Senator Thurmond? Yeah, in 2001. I was working at what was then still known as Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Thurmond was in poor health and he pretty much was using the VIP ward at WRAMC as his sort of private hospice for long periods of time. He would stay for several days or weeks, then go home, back and forth.
Anyway, I was coming in the main entrance and there he was in a wheelchair, waiting with an attendant for his car to come pick him up. I recognized him immediately, and thought I’d say hello. It would have been the courteous thing to do - I was an NCO in uniform, and he was a serving US Senator. “Good morning, Senator Thurmond!”
He regarded me with a “Hmph!” and a withering glance - as if he was noticing a bug caught in his windshield wiper. Just that- a quick once over, a Hmph!, and then returned his gaze toward the street, waiting for his driver.
I just laughed - to my self, and AT myself, for even trying to be courteous to the old Dixiecrat POS.
He died a couple years later.