re: #526 Obdicut

Al Gore was a Military reporter in Vietnam. He was in Harvard, he easily could have dodged the draft, but he didn’t. He was one of very few kids from his level of wealth and privilege to serve. It’s something I very rarely hear anyone on the right give him credit for. I’ve even heard some assholes disparage him for ‘just’ being a journalist in the Army, as if he had a choice and as if that’s ‘just’ a job, in a place where the Viet Cong were blowing up soldiers in the cafes in the ‘safe’ part of Vietnam.

I didn’t know that. That is worthy of respect.