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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: JCroweJCrowe Date: Sep 22, 2007 10:57
Olin wrote:
> My grandparents and mother lived all that stuff. My father even served as
> the Navy's honor guard when Roosevelt's body was carried from the train to
> the White House to lie in state.
>
> Never met my father, 'cause he died shortly before I was born, but the rest
> were nominal republicans and would have shot anybody who said an unkind word
> about FDR.
Interesting, both of my parents, who were Navy personnel in WWII,
detested FDR. And they were nominally democrats at the time.
> Recently, while Admiral Fallon was taking apart the good General Petraeus in
> a way that MoveOn could only have dreamed of, the point was raised that you
> don't make it to the top in the military without ruffling some feathers.
> While much of that feather-ruffling is surely political in nature and
> entirely calculated, much of it is driven by deep-seated prinicple, and it
> might well be because of that that things are not any worse than they are.
You will notice that most of the military personel at high levels
either wait to make comments until they are retired, or are driven out
after making comments contrary to the Bush doctrine. The list is long
and Petraeus is more of a yes-man than a man with military experience.
To me, he seems like some sort of glorified accountant with all his
spreadsheets and generally detached manner.
>
> Seems that every time you've come through Nashvegas, life has intervened and
> kept me from the gathering. Hopefully that will change by the next time you
> get here.
I don't know when that will be, but I sure do want to meet up with the
Nashville folks again whenever that may happen. Perhaps I will get to
take another woodworking course over in Dandridge sometime in 2008...it
would make for a nice roadtrip.
Pax,
JC
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