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jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
9. Self-selected is more likely
Thu Dec 27, 2018, 02:46 PM
Dec 2018

President Clinton came to Fort Drum when I was stationed there to thank us for our service in Somalia and Florida. (10th Mountain sent more troops to the Hurricane Andrew relief effort than any other unit.) We were all given the choice to go or not to. A lot of Republican-leaning troops went because when the hell ELSE are you going to get to see the commander-in-chief in person?

For the same reason, the troops in Iraq would have gone to see Hillary if she would have won the Electoral College. And they would have been civil at least in public, because that's what soldiers do to their leaders.

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