Vietnam era draft dodgers meet in southeastern B.C. for reunion...

Monuments to cowardice and desertion?

As far as deserter/defectors are concerned....
Personally, I don't really mind cowards weaselling out - I'd rather have them quit now than endanger the life of a real soldier beside them by wimping out later.

What really infuriates me is the left's wrapping of this cowardice in the cloak of morality. They pretend that their cowardice is the result of a principled, moral decision. It is not! It is an act of cowardice that requires only a bus ticket and the encouragement of fellow cowards, who quake from fear at the life and death challenges that face us all. A thirteen year old in a cancer ward has more courage than these collections of genetic defective cells that merely consume oxygen.

Quit - certainly. Abandon your country, your comrades and your sworn duty - if you must. But that decision should carry with it a deep sense of shame, a lifelong stigma, and the derision of society - not the approval or support of the media.

But a monument to cowardice? That would be the equivalent to erecting a statue commemorating the town pedophile. Both morally disgusting. These cowards are not much more than the mutant spawn of a bizarre reproductive act that should never have been allowed to survive to this point. As a fifth generation Canadian and veteran,, I'm disgusted.

Bud Clydesdale

Coquitlam

Mr. Clydesdale, thank you for your comments. I support them completely.
My cousin was a member of a very fundamentalist Christian church during the Vietnam War. He had a valid reason for conscientious objection. But he went to Vietnam and served in the medic corps, taking care of the boys who had to take the place of the 50,000 cowards that ran out.
Thanks again for speaking out.

I am looking for the whereabouts if anyone knows of an American Vietnam War Draft Dodger whom originated from California. His name is Harry Simon and he was last known to live in British Columbia, Canada. He worked for Canada Post and Hewlett Packa
rd and as a crew member of a mariner vessel. If anyone knows how to reach him please advise him to get a hold of:
northwestbynorthwest@hotmail.c om

WOW! That's a lot of judgement. There are people who choose peace. I even hear some guy let himself get nailed to a cross in the name of peace and love.(must have been a coward,huh?)

Bud Clydesdale wrote:

Monuments to cowardice and desertion?
As far as deserter/defectors are concerned....
Personally, I don't really mind cowards weaselling out - I'd rather have them quit now than endanger the life of a real soldier beside them by wimping out later.
What really infuriates me is the left's wrapping of this cowardice in the cloak of morality. They pretend that their cowardice is the result of a principled, moral decision. It is not! It is an act of cowardice that requires only a bus ticket and the encouragement of fellow cowards, who quake from fear at the life and death challenges that face us all. A thirteen year old in a cancer ward has more courage than these collections of genetic defective cells that merely consume oxygen.
Quit - certainly. Abandon your country, your comrades and your sworn duty - if you must. But that decision should carry with it a deep sense of shame, a lifelong stigma, and the derision of society - not the approval or support of the media.
But a monument to cowardice? That would be the equivalent to erecting a statue commemorating the town pedophile. Both morally disgusting. These cowards are not much more than the mutant spawn of a bizarre reproductive act that should never have been allowed to survive to this point. As a fifth generation Canadian and veteran,, I'm disgusted.
Bud Clydesdale
Coquitlam

SOME draft dodgers had to leave their country while others became pres. and vice pres . of the USA . Weird eh ?

LUMUMBA LIVES

God bless all Vietnam veterans

Bud Clydesdale wrote:

Monuments to cowardice and desertion?
As far as deserter/defectors are concerned....
Personally, I don't really mind cowards weaselling out - I'd rather have them quit now than endanger the life of a real soldier beside them by wimping out later.
What really infuriates me is the left's wrapping of this cowardice in the cloak of morality. They pretend that their cowardice is the result of a principled, moral decision. It is not! It is an act of cowardice that requires only a bus ticket and the encouragement of fellow cowards, who quake from fear at the life and death challenges that face us all. A thirteen year old in a cancer ward has more courage than these collections of genetic defective cells that merely consume oxygen.
Quit - certainly. Abandon your country, your comrades and your sworn duty - if you must. But that decision should carry with it a deep sense of shame, a lifelong stigma, and the derision of society - not the approval or support of the media.
But a monument to cowardice? That would be the equivalent to erecting a statue commemorating the town pedophile. Both morally disgusting. These cowards are not much more than the mutant spawn of a bizarre reproductive act that should never have been allowed to survive to this point. As a fifth generation Canadian and veteran,, I'm disgusted.
Bud Clydesdale
Coquitlam

Right on Bud!