re: #252 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Bush, Sr, is a man I can respect. Not because of his views but there was nothing that required him to become the US Navy’s youngest combat pilot, up to that time, in WWII. He was the utter opposite of the chicken hawks like Cheney. I may disagree with very nearly every decision he made, but damn it, he believed in this nation enough to put his neck out there on the line. As I have seen it put elsewhere, “A Veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount of “up to and including my life.” ” He put his name on that blank check.