From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 08:03:59 MDT
>From: Amara Graps <amara@amara.com>
>This was your choice.
And some people on this list are doing their very best to make me
try and regret it.
>Many people here have stories of themselves or people close to
>them who have struggled (chosen freely) very hard for many years,
>often under the conditions that you wrote above. (You know that
>you've described normal life (or a pretty good life) for many
>people on this planet, anyway.)
>For those that we know, are you claiming that an engineer's
>struggleor a doctor's struggle, or a mother's struggle, or a
>writer's struggle, or a farmer's struggle is not as valuable as a
>soldier's struggle?
Really...
Lets play trading places then shall we?
Ask any of the above how willing they are to trade places with,
lets say, the wounded Navy Seal who fell from his chopper during an
emergency liffoff and was captured and executed by the Taliban.
Where were his Geneva convention rights by the way?
Or any of the others that died or were wounded in Afghanistan, or
Desert Storm, or Somalia, or Grenada, or the 55,000 that died or
the 400,000 wounded during Vietnam?
If their struggling so hard, tell them to quit what there doing and
join the military and live the "easy" life.
>Who gave you the authority to claim that _your_ struggle is more
>valuable than other people's struggles? Your weapon that you used
>might not have existed if it were not for that particular
>engineer's struggle. You might not be alive today if it were not
>for the 'sacrifices' and struggles (freely made) by a distant
>relative in your past. Perhaps the struggles of that farmer
>contributed significantly so that your family had food to eat. Or
>maybe the struggles of that scientist that learned how to
>vaccinate against against a particular deadly virus is the reason
>that you're alive today too.
Without Veterans this country would not exist. Next time there's a
9/11, call an engineer.
>I see no reason why these other people's 'struggles' are not just
>as valuable as the struggle that you're claiming as a soldier.
Become a soldier, you'll understand.
Brian
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