OK, GUEST,guest from NW, maybe I've become obsessive as a not quite lone voice on this forum. Regardless, it's a policy enforced by the last 7 presidents, each of whom had military killed as a result of their orders. Greg, it was worth the exchange just to offer the info to SRS who apparently missed what Clinton did to stay out of the war. Rapaire, I respect your consistency and your view. Forgive me for challenging you.

I do ask folks to remember this. Beyond Hillary, what are the odds that then next few Democrats nominated for president will have a Viet Nam record any different from Clinton or Gore? Some of us thought it was over when Clinton was elected and it wouldn't come up again. It's a little like claiming they did drugs in their youth. Were they teenagers in the 60s or early 70s? How many didn't?

Either way it's a little past time to put that war behind us and remember that the people we will choose our leaders from acted about like we did in those days.   A few fought and were abused when they came home. A few protested from the beginning and grew so bitter they said somethings they might not like to hear repeated now. Even fewer did both. Most of us did what we needed to do to stay out of it.