Democrats want to bring back the draft so they can blame Bush. What kind of crass idiocy is this? They've gone around the bend.

Well said and my Thanks can never be enough to express my gratitude for your service and sacrifice.

I am a veteran and father of three sons. While I hope my boys never have to fire a shot in anger, I would be as proud to have them serve wit you as I would be. Rest assured that your efforts are appreciated.

Soldier, you are loved and revered here at home, and I thank you for the wise words you have shared. I also want to thank you for your service and sacrifice.

I have just printed out your letter, and I will be faxing it to Dan Blather's office (212-975-1998), as well as the Senators in PA, where she lives. With any luck, we can get your sincere thanks delivered to her. ;-)

Brilliant, and thank you, sir, for your service.

Thank you for your service, your patriotism and your wisdom. As a twenty year military veteran who retired in 1979, men like you, serving with honor and bravery make us proud to be part of the military family.

i forwarded this link to Ms. Cocco just now. should you choose to send her mail directly, one might use the contact email for her at this link to "People Against the Draft"

http://www.nodraft.info/contact.html

Just your average, ordinary American soldier --- doing their usual above average, extraordinary things.

Thank you sir, may God bless and keep you and yours.

I FULLY am in line with your comments. When I was in the Army during the last days of the Cold War, we spitballed the question from time to time. Noone I ever served with wanted to have to put up with draftees in the Unit. We were there for various reasons, but we all wanted to be there. We knew we could count on each other - but to count on a draftee? Too risky. All Volunteer Army, all the way.

85-88 3 AD, 1st BDE, 2/3 FA
USAR 88-93, 378th Checmical

Greyhawk, I thank you for putting yourself on the line so all of us can live in freedom. Please convey my gratitude to those who serve with you.

Beautifully put, and far more courteous than I would manage in the same position. Please pass along our (not an editorial or royal "we," but recognition that I'm but one voice among many) thanks, gratitude, and deep respect.

Well said. We are so appreciative of what all the brave men and women are doing to serve our country. Thank you!

Well said. We are so appreciative of what all the brave men and women are doing to serve our country. Thank you!

Dearest Greyhawk-
I am, at this very moment, I am sending up a prayer for you. I wish I were so courageous. I've always felt a little lousy that I went the Army Reserve route (circa 1970). If God hears my prayer (and without doubt He will), you will be blessed!
Thank you for your service to America (and me!).
Pete Goddard
Columbia, SC

Well said! You and your fellow servicemen and servicewomen are a credit to the USA. I feel honored just reading your text. May the Lord bless and keep you safe.
From a retired USN type.

Greyhawk, you are my hero, along with every other soldier like you. Sincere thanks!

Cognitive dissonance: I believed for years that only senior NCOs had the ability to deliver polite but effective slapdowns like that. Other things I've read on this site lead me to believe that the mysterious Mr. Greyhawk is an officer. The site continues to make me think.

I trust the powers that be understand that if it ever becomes necessary to change the rules they'd better served by raising the age limits for enlisting than by reviving the draft. I wish I could be there with you, sir.

Hooo-ah. Well put soldier. I'll see you over there next spring. Be good.

Thank you. Well put. I served in the Vietnam Era Marine Corps when the last of the draftees were leaving. There were a lot of good men who were drafted, didn't like it, did their duty well, and left. However, their contributions were far overshadowed by the disgruntled and the "join or jail" crowd. I have the utmost respect for the careerists who revived the military from the damage that lot caused.

There’s a lot of talk going around these days about bringing back the draft, and I suppose many of the reasons its proponents give are valid and legitimate. But it strikes me that that a lot of these very same people spent their salad days thirty or forty years ago shouting “HELL NO! WE WON’T GO!!!” Which may be neither here not there; I certainly wouldn’t want to be judged by opinions I held thirty years ago; but it does lead me to suspect that calls for the resumption of the draft have very little to do with fairness and everything to do with recreating the anti-Vietnam War movement. Without the power and anxieties of the middle class behind them the antiwar movement in this country is just a tranquilizer away from the lunatic fringe. The greatest proof of this is what happened to the student movement after the draft ended in 1973. The student revolutionaries on the campuses, who thought they were going to lead the great upheaval against the evil, corrupt, warmongering AmeriKKKan establishment, found themselves abandoned by their foot soldiers, the scions of the middle classes who found that life in the USA was fine once they found they wouldn’t have to get shot at by the Vietnamese peasantry. The great revolution never came because it was strictly a one trick pony, and once the war went away so did the revolution. I strongly suspect that most of these antiwar types know deep down that they are largely irrelevant without the middle classes they despise so much, and that thought makes them nauseous. But politics makes for strange bedfellows, to coin a phrase, and so long as the answer to “HELL NO! WE WON’T GO!!!” is “so who’s asking you to?” these people are going nowhere. On the other hand, I don’t think they’ll mind strange bedfellows at all. They are all for letting people do what they want in bed.

Thank you so much ,not just for your service to our country, which I appreciate more than I can say,but for giving me the perfect ammunition to show to the idiots who can't be bothered to run a search for themselves,to see that the only ones who are talking of a draft are Democrats.
May God bless you and keep you safe, you and all the others who are in harm's way.

Well done Greyhawk. We know our armed forces don't need or want a draft. So does the current president. The only people talking about the return of the draft are the commies in the democratic party and and libtards in the media.

Your eloquence is brilliant your sentiments touch me , deepest thanks.