Any other Dems running for 08 Pres volunteer for Marines besides Hillary? [View All]

[papau]

Not a combat vet because she was rejected when she became interested in the military as a recent law grad, currently law professor, in 1975 at age 27 - but also not a person who puts down those that serve in the military or sees their mission as less than a service to the country.

I'm sure other Dem 08 candidates volunteered or were actually in the military - but I can't recall who - any one remember the bio's well enough to drag up this factoid?


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4D71F3AF936A25755C0A962958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FC%2FClinton%2C%20Hillary%20Rodham
Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine

By MAUREEN DOWD, Published: June 15, 1994

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Speaking at a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she once visited a recruiting office in Arkansas to inquire about joining the Marines. <snip>

She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. 'Not Very Encouraging'

"You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. "Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying.

"It was not a very encouraging conversation," she said. "I decided maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country." <snip>