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Originally Posted by Bourne
From one who served three tours in country all I can say is that I admire Ali's convictions and courage. There were those of us who served, there were those of convction who chose not to because of profound beliefs and then there were the cowards who ran away.
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Come on bourne the options were.
1. go to war
2. have wealthy parents and political connections so you can stay in germany
or be in the guard.
3. Get really lucky
4. go to jail
5 run away.
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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
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