"S****" <kudzu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:op.tbvynt06acsx9y@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:05:10 -0400, Cynical <Cyn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spewed:
>
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>>> A lot of us missed out on a lot of it cause we were on an all expense
>>> paid
>>> vacation to a small Asian country, courtesy of the US government.
Good
>>> travel op****tunity for all those lower middle class and poor young
men,
>>> black and white. We got to see parts of this world we would never
have
>>> seen any other way. AND some of us got to come back home too!! I
>>> remember
>>> seeing a lot of lower income blacks, whites and Hispanics from the
city,
>>> lots of lower income blacks and whites from the country. Saw a few
>>> college
>>> education men, a few what's family's had some money, but mostly it was
>>> us,
>>> poor white, black and brown trash, not too bright, not much future,
>>> danged
>>> good cannon fodder. And now as I ponder on it, I don't recall ever
>>> seeing
>>> an Arab, man or boy, wearing a uniform but there were a great gob of
>>> them I
>>> grew up around in Dearborn and Detroit, went to school with a bunch of
>>> them, we graduated, I got drafted they disappeared. I wish someone
>>> would
>>> tell me if I am wrong, if I just did not see them, but I never heard a
>>> roll
>>> call that went Smith, Levy, Jones, Abumas or some such. Where were
they
>>> during that war?????????
>>
>>
>
>
> I can remember several Arab guys that were in the Navy with me between
> 1968 and 1971.
.. They must have been smarter than us so they enlisted in the navy to
keep
out of the jungle. I don't want to sound racist, I just had never seen
any.
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