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This is from TAH. The remarks are from TAH. It's a wonderful story about us.
A comment made here recently brought this little bit of history to mind.
After retiring from the USMC, John Glenn entered politics. He ran as a candidate for the US Senate in 1974 from his native Ohio as a Democrat.
A comment made here recently brought this little bit of history to mind.
After retiring from the USMC, John Glenn entered politics. He ran as a candidate for the US Senate in 1974 from his native Ohio as a Democrat.
Military Service and “Real Jobs”
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Funny, if being in the military isn't a "real job" then why are there some many lying about having served. You don't see anyone lying about being a banker or a teacher.
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SSG Robert Webster
Actually SGT Benjamin Lindsey, we see people all the time lying about being a teacher. Think about it.
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Thanks for sharing this episode from history in the year I enlisted in the US Army as a 12B combat engineer SGT (Join to see). That John Glenn replied to Howard Metzenbaum who claimed his military and astronaut experience was not a read job.
"Howard, I can’t believe you said I have never held a job.
“I served twenty-three years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on twelve different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.
“I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day, to a Veterans Hospital and look those men, with their mangled bodies, in the eye and tell them they didn’t hold a job. You go with me to any gold-star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job."
"Howard, I can’t believe you said I have never held a job.
“I served twenty-three years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on twelve different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn’t my checkbook; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.
“I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day, to a Veterans Hospital and look those men, with their mangled bodies, in the eye and tell them they didn’t hold a job. You go with me to any gold-star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job."
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