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> WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID :

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> Things that make you think a little:

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> There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January.

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> In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the

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> month of January. That's just one American city,

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> about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.

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> When some claim that President Bush shouldn't

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> have started this war, state the following:

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> a. FDR led us into World War II.

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> b. Germany never attacked us; Japan did.

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> From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost .

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> an average of 112,500 per year.

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> c. Truman finished that war and started one in Korea.

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> North Korea never attacked us.

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> From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ..

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> an average of 18,334 per year.

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>

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> d. John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.

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> Vietnam never attacked us..

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> e. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire.

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> From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ..

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> an average of 5,800 per year.

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> f. Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent.

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> Bosnia never attacked us..

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> He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three

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> times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on

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> multiple occasions.

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> g. In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush

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> has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled

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> al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and North

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> Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who

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> slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

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> The Democrats are complaining

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> about how long the war is taking.

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> But

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> It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno

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> to take the Branch Davidian compound.

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> That was a 51-day operation.

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> We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons

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> in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find

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> the Rose Law Firm billing records.

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> It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the

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> Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard

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> than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his

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> Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick

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> It took less time to take Iraq than it took

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> to count the votes in Florida!!!!

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> Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!

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> The Military morale is high!

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> The biased media hopes we are too ignorant

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> to realize the facts.

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> But Wait. There's more!

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> JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)

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> Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13

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> Some people still don't understand why military personnel

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> do what they do for a living. This exchange between

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> Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum

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> is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive

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> impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one

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> man's explanation of why men and women in the armed

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> services do what they do for a living.

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> This IS a typical, though sad, example of what

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> some who have never served think of the military.

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> Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):

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> "How can you run for Senate

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> when you've never held a real job?"

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> Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):

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> "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.

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> I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.

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> My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different

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> occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my

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> checkbook, Howard, it was my life on the line. It was

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> not a nine-to-five job, where I took my tie off to take the

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> daily cash receipts to the bank."

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> "I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...

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> to a veterans' hospital and look those men ...

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> with their mangled bodies in the eye, and tell THEM

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> they didn't hold a job!

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> You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go,

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> as I have gone, to the widows and orphans

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> of Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee...

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> and you look those kids in the eye and tell them

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> that their DADS didn't hold a job.

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> You go with me on Memorial Day, and you stand in

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> Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends

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> buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch

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> those waving flags

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> You stand there, and you think about this nation,

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> and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?

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> What about you?"

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> For those who don't remember ..

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> During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney

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> representing the Communist Party in the USA.

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> Now he's a Senator!

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> If you can read this, thank a teacher.

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> If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.

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Chucktoo, what a great post.

It is always worth a reminder, even for people like ourselves, that we should never forget the dedication and sacrifices made by our armed forces.