Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:15:19 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
>> Cuban Missle Crisis occured in 1962. I wasn't allowed to join the Navy
>> then. I was only 9 years old. Us kids were playing army though.
>>
>> US started sending troops and bombing in Vietnam in 1965 but had been
>> sending in "advisors" earlier.
>>
>> I was draft age in 1972 but got a high lottery number. If I had gotten a
>> draft notice, was going to join the Marines (better trained than the
>> Army). Turned out that they didn't draft at all that year and they left
>> Vietnam in 1973. And the commies won after all those years.
>>
>> In hindsight, we should have stayed out of that civil war in the
>> beginning and saved many young lives on both sides.
>
> And you wouldn't have had your ass handed to you by a much smaller
> enemy.
>

Indeed, and his ass wouldn't be sniffed by you this very day!