Why are Republicans only concerned about drafting our daughters, apparently forgetting that 600,000 American men were slaughtered in the Civil War, 400,000 American men in WW2, and 100,000 American men in Korea and Vietnam?
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So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (2/1/24)?
We learned that this was the first day we began tackling our 2024 bills. Before we did that, though, we welcomed our two newest members of the House, Rep. Sean Durkin (R- Coos Dist1) and Rep. Mike Murphy (R-Gorham). We also took some time to remember the Hon. Suzanne Smith (D-Grafton 8), who passed away in early January 2024.
Memorial Day, Liberty-&-Freedom, and the military draft
The quote below is from an article in today’s Union Leader by Vietnam Navy veteran Jim Adams (he was in the Navy and in Vietnam around the same time I was in the Marines in Vietnam):
“In 1940, as World War II loomed, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie gave his support to his opponent — Franklin Roosevelt — in his push for a peacetime draft. Later in life, Willkie remarked that on his epitaph, he would rather have that he “contributed to freedom” than that he was a President.” But wait….