Tavane -> RE: Experiences of female superiority in real life.. (2/17/2009 7:08:50 AM)
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It's the one double standard I can accept; women not subject to the draft. Personally, I don't like the idea of drafting men either, and find it inconcistent with involuntary servitude and other aspects of our Constitution, but they need to do it sometimes, so it doesn't matter what I think. However, It's not something which should ever happen to women. Although women do exist who could deal with it, most women couldn't, and shouldn't. The military (at least during the Vietnam war) truly was slavery. You were a slave, 24/7, got beaten, brutalized, pushed to exhaustion, often by sadistic drill sergeants, and had no freedom and virtually no money. I couldn't believe they would treat American citizens like that. It was more than culture shock. It was unreal. Then they send you off to war, and although the sadistic brutality is over with, the suffering and danger increase much more, and you know that some idiot officer can send you out to almost certain death, on a whim. At least it was only temporary, if you could survive it, and every guy knew exactly how many days he had left as a slave. If we were near Bien Hoa airbase, we'd look up and sometimes see airliners bring new guys in, or taking them home. We called them "freedom birds", and would just look at them with frustration and hope. I'll never forget coming home, and getting discharged three days later at Oakland Army base. You stand in the pay line for the last time, and they give you your money, and keep your military ID card this time, and you look around at the other guys, and you all realize that you are free again. It was the greatest moment of my life. Nothing will ever compare to it, though when the airliner left the ground in Vietnam, to take me home, was the second greatest.
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