Firscherscherling
Liberal Filthy Hairless Pig-Monkey
Context. It's about context.PatrickM said:Notice the complete sentence structure there? "Suspended from flight status."
If you've read my, oh last dozen posts or so, I freely admitted he was suspended from flight status. But the statement from pearlz was simply that he was suspended without any further explanation. This implies something negative. But as I've said countless times before, it was routine for pilots to have their flight status suspended for reasons I enumerated countless times before. It was not a big thing as measured by Guard standards.
Just curious, could you be more specific, as this would be a kink in his armor, more than anything brought up regarding his Guard service.
As for the "jumping ahead of the line", even my father tried to get me in earlier than I did, him being a retired instructor at West Point and a Bronze Star recipient. It didn't work, but I will be forever grateful that my father tried. Would any of you, given the same opportunity, taken such an offer? Or would you have declined, and jumped on the first boat to VN?
I also mentioned that the movie-star, Dean Martin, pulled strings to get his son into my Guard unit. Welcome to the real world, gentlemen.
It's interesting all the liberal/Democrats are so adamant about calling Bush's enlistment in the guard as "shirking", and have so little memory of Bill Clinton's run to Europe (including Moscow). Selective judgment?
I have no disrespect for those who worked to stay out of the war. I have no disrespect for those who did go.
I have disrespect for those in the Bush campaign who would attack Kerry's service in light of Bush's record of service. I have disrespect for those who tear Kerry part for his service, while totally ignoring Bush's clear failures.
I would have gone to Canada. Had I gotten into the guard, I would have at least fulfilled my duties there. Had I done either of those, I would never have dared to defame the service of those who did go if it was shown that he served honorably.
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