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[Anonymous Poster]

"Franz,

We do not have a draft currently, just selective service registration. I would respectfully submit that if the draft were reinstituted, there would be a host of exemptions introduced in Congress. Perhaps they won't pass but it's too early to judge."

Well then I must have been halucinating thru those hours I interviewed to become a member of my Local Draft Board, and learned all the information I posted relative to the exemption process and deferrment process.
NO, I wasn't halucinating, I was there, and believe me, the Congress has already done the work, every circumstance and contingency has been codified, and the Draft is ready to go. FYI, the concensus of opinion among people involved in the system and Local Boards is that there is less than .01% chance the system will ever be activated.

 

[Chuck52]

"It ain't me. It ain't me, no. I ain't no senator's son, no, no."

As long as that song echos through the marshlands, any draft with no exemptions will be difficult to get the congress to activate, contingency plans or no.

Chuck

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Ya'll should have been with me today. It was some real rarified air I got to breathe.

One of the things that always surprises me is how you feel someone is really great and then something happens you find out everyone thinks they were great.

That's the way it was with Bud Hale. Here all of us who knew him through his military ties thought he was only the greatest. We thought it was because of us I guess. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Then the folks got up and started talking about him and we find out he was the greatest with everyone who came in contact with him.

Probably the two most used sentiments involved caring or kindness and respect for others. He was living proof about that thing on respect, you got to give it to get it.

The old guys were there and that little deal about real men not crying is wrong. These are men by any standard imaginable and they all shed from multiple to many many tears.

They're building a learning center in his name across the street from the middle and elementary schools there in Mcalester, Oklahoma.

The thought crossed my mind about how nice it would be to do something that could best reflect Bud's affect on those who knew him. An image comes to mind of the ripples on the pond after a stone lands on the water. The rings that appear to be individual and alone but in reality the results of a common event. You can't have just one ripple running out and away.

I'm thinking of iron rings radiating out. Each one appearing to be just a simple iron ring unattached to the ones on each side of it, alone in space surrounded by other rings.

What would be neat to figure out how to do would be to have the rings have half rings underneath, one stacked on top of the other, smallest on top and largest on the bottom.

Now........if the joinery was just right no matter which ring you moved it would affect all the others but not in an uniform and predictable way. Sorta like real life and our interaction as human beings.

 

[19th_VA]

Hi Harv,

Your post reminded me of the following quote, from a speech delivered at the University of Capetown in South Africa.

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."