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Education In morality and Ethics?

From C. Parsons, on Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:17:08 GMT (in response to: How Old Am I?)

I would expect a person who wrote this type of note would be highly educated in morality. But you must have missed a few classes. I did not join to fight a war because of John Wayne. I joined because ever since before the American Revolition (you did hear of that?) my family has believed that this brave new world was worth defending, and that we had a personal as well as a family obligation to defend a country that gave us the chance to live in freedom. Members of my family have fought for OUR country in every war since the Revolution and my family has never turned our back on our country, because of people like you who are anable or unwilling to defend her. I did not go to Vietnam to be a hero, only to do the job my family taught me to do. I may have some serious reservations about the war but at least I was willing to go unlike the moral people like you. I still feel bad for people like you, who spit at me on my return to the WORLD after my first tour. Morality is a two way street and people like you who called waiting wives on the telephone to tell them that their husband had been killed in action, are the ones who needed the morality and ethics education you speak about. Why don't you work on that! I have long forgiven my Vietnamese brothers-in-arms long ago, it's people like you who I find very hard to forgive. However, I do wish that you could someday forgive yourself for your attitude. Maybe you should kiss the ___ of thoes men and women who died for your life since the founding of MY country, maybe even your country!


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