Well did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or what .No, A-hole. I have an extremely low opinion of someone who joins in with a bully, like that.
You may not think much of my "civil discourse" but a lifetime of experience encountering toadies like you is that you and yours are defective human beings.
I have never advertised my military service like your pal "Eagle Smack" but it has been listed on my profile since the day that I registered for this forum.
Now would you like to go into details about the "battles" that you fought? What a moronic question you asked, BTW.
Maybe,in circumstances like this one where you haven't a clue about the meaning of your insults but you go ahead and make them anyway, perhaps you should just shut the feck up and not join the lynch mob, a-hole.
Once again I never once called your character or honesty into question I simply asked you to clarify a point .( a point that you made by the way ) . I again ask you to reread my posts and take back your insulting remarks .
And I hold the same opinion of all who served with honor during those trying times . But the difference between serving and fighting is huge .Curious, let it go. I don't care what you did in the Cold War: manned a DEW line station, served as a clerk-typist in Manitoba, or rode the waves in a Canadian ship. You served with honour, and your readiness is what stopped, and eventually destroyed, the USSR.
When EagleSmack's in a better mood, he'll acknowledge that.
I acknowledge it now. We worked hard to hold the line against the only existential threat the U.S. and Canada ever faced. We done good.
So how do you equate that with what is happening in Vietnam today as opposed to N.Korea ?Korea was an enormous success, in the end. Anyone who doubts the need to stop the Communists from enslaving the South (literally) need only compare the two Koreas and understand that "Communist slavery" was far more than mete propagandistic rhetoric.
I was an engineer ... still am.
Another who would rather insult the poster rather than the message .you got that right...
Good work Sal .