Re: National Guard

["Jonathan Stevens" <jonathan.e.stevens@wheaton.edu>]

> It's also true that Al Gore -- flouting the liberal activism of his 
> peers and professors at Harvard -- enlisted and carried a gun in 
> Vietnam,

I am reminded of the picture of him looking down the barrel of an 
M16 the wrong way.  

even if his duties reporting for "Stars and Stripes" weren't 
> combative.  He was a "bright" kid with a cute fiance (wife?) and a dad in 
> the U.S. Senate.  He could have avoided service  easily enough with a 
> grad school deferment or pulling strings, so cut the guy a break.

I know a few VN vets and none had two bodyguards with them 
wherever they went like AL.  I doubt anyone in the KW had two 
bodyguards for that matter either, except for maybe Gen. 
MacArthur. (Tie in with Korean War)

Jon Stevens