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I never gave much thought to it when I was younger either. To busy trying to survive. Not much room for anything else. Self absorbed maybe?

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i came up in a multi-generational military family in the '60's... i was in the military during Vietnam under Nixon through Carter to Reagan.

i'm a conservative southern democrat... feel free to figure that shit out.

I grew up with politics and the news at a young age. My dad was also a deputy sheriff at the time. We watch the news all the time back in the 70s, my dad's subscribed to pretty much every magazine time, Newsweek US News & World Report, Los Angeles Times and so I basically was reading about the news for hearing about it all the time. When I was young kid, I remember watching and reading about Vietnam being attacked by the North and how the Vietnamese were fleeing from all the major cities or getting on the last plane out. Weeks later, my mother was at Camp Pendleton for a month helping with her United Way agency help resettle those Vietnamese that were picked up by the US Navy. So back in 1975, I got my first reality about news and political Affairs. I was only 12 years old back then. From that point forward, I always followed the news. While my wife likes watching the Kardashian or other stupid reality shows, I like watching the news because as a soldier and the reserve component, any war that breaks out can make a potential situation for myself for my unit to be called up to go help out with it afterwards