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To: President Bush
From: The Men and Women of America
I believe in fighting for democracy and freedom everywhere in the world. I am willing to sacrifice when the cause is just and the strategy is strong. But I don't want anyone to be forced to die for a terrible, unplanned war.
President Bush, you say there will be no draft. Why should I trust you?
Go to this link to sign your name to exclude the draft!
One reason I'm putting this up is that I have friends and family that are in the age range for a draft. They could even think of extending the age range, but I think I'd be 4F (Medically Unfit for Duty). However, I don't want anyone else fighting in this damn thing. I could have lost a dear friend of mine is this whole mess. Damn good thing he's getting out of the service while he still can.
Needless to say, I support our troops 100%. I just don't believe in the cause right now.
From: The Men and Women of America
I believe in fighting for democracy and freedom everywhere in the world. I am willing to sacrifice when the cause is just and the strategy is strong. But I don't want anyone to be forced to die for a terrible, unplanned war.
President Bush, you say there will be no draft. Why should I trust you?
Go to this link to sign your name to exclude the draft!
One reason I'm putting this up is that I have friends and family that are in the age range for a draft. They could even think of extending the age range, but I think I'd be 4F (Medically Unfit for Duty). However, I don't want anyone else fighting in this damn thing. I could have lost a dear friend of mine is this whole mess. Damn good thing he's getting out of the service while he still can.
Needless to say, I support our troops 100%. I just don't believe in the cause right now.
I know that in this day and age, we're all trying to protect out kids from seeing graphic things on TV. We have the V-Chip. We have ratings on TV shows. All the porn cable channels are Pay-per-View, which has a sense of security about it. Basically, the government, such as it is, has given families the guidelines to monitor what our kids watch.
However, this time, they've gone over the line. Not just setting a toe over it, not even pussyfooting past it. I'm talking pole-vaulting here.
Tonight, in honor of Veteran's Day, ABC is showing Saving Private Ryan. Very intense combat scenes, right at the get-go.The invasion of the Normandy beachhead on D-Day is one of the most intense movie experiences I've ever had -- and I didn't even see it on the big screen. I can understand Stephen Hunter's (author and movie critic for the Washington Post) point when he said that after those scenes were over, he was so riled up that even he was looking for a German soldier so he could surrender.
I must admit that the movie may be a bit on the graphic side to air on regular broadcast TV. I can understand why ABC is showing it in all its unedited (even for language) glory, in view of the holiday. But I don't think that it's necessarily the right for the local affiliates to basically censor what we may or may not want to watch by showing something else. They're taking the choice away from us. What if I wanted to watch it, and found out at the last minute that my local ABC channel is going to show, say, Far and Away? (That's exactly what they're doing, too.) So now if I want to watch it, I'd have to run up to Blockbuster and hope that other people didn't have the same idea I had.
I just don't understand it at times... I hate it when other people take a choice away from me. If they were showing it, and I wanted to watch it, fine. If I didn't, fine. But I don't have that choice now, do I?
And neither do you.
Enough of the rant.
Carry on.
However, this time, they've gone over the line. Not just setting a toe over it, not even pussyfooting past it. I'm talking pole-vaulting here.
Tonight, in honor of Veteran's Day, ABC is showing Saving Private Ryan. Very intense combat scenes, right at the get-go.The invasion of the Normandy beachhead on D-Day is one of the most intense movie experiences I've ever had -- and I didn't even see it on the big screen. I can understand Stephen Hunter's (author and movie critic for the Washington Post) point when he said that after those scenes were over, he was so riled up that even he was looking for a German soldier so he could surrender.
I must admit that the movie may be a bit on the graphic side to air on regular broadcast TV. I can understand why ABC is showing it in all its unedited (even for language) glory, in view of the holiday. But I don't think that it's necessarily the right for the local affiliates to basically censor what we may or may not want to watch by showing something else. They're taking the choice away from us. What if I wanted to watch it, and found out at the last minute that my local ABC channel is going to show, say, Far and Away? (That's exactly what they're doing, too.) So now if I want to watch it, I'd have to run up to Blockbuster and hope that other people didn't have the same idea I had.
I just don't understand it at times... I hate it when other people take a choice away from me. If they were showing it, and I wanted to watch it, fine. If I didn't, fine. But I don't have that choice now, do I?
And neither do you.
Enough of the rant.
Carry on.
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