Military service isn’t requirement of patriotism

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Thanks to Herald columnist Sid Schwab for defending the South Vietnamese people from socialistic tyranny (“With Pinochet in Portland, where are liberty’s defenders?” The Herald, July 25). Too bad he served in a war deemed America’s most unpopular and meaningless. I got drafted. But fortunately did not have to serve in combat. Nor did I want to. I was scared to death. If I were not a sole-surviving son, the Army would have forced me to serve either as a door gunner or grunt.

Military service isn’t requirement of patriotism
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