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Released on March 24th, 2014 through Friesen Press: \u00c2\u00a0Be All You Can Be<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is something sad about a person who blindly sacrifices his life \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfor his country,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for he is unaware of the real issues. If a person can grasp the truth about war, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but color his thinking on such issues as draft dodging. The name draft dodger suggests the evasion of a just debt or obligation. In reality, a draft dodger is either a person who rejects military service on religious or moral grounds\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor plainly doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to allow himself to be killed. Any of those reasons should be good enough, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that he should be persecuted or prosecuted.<\/p>\n

A person who is willing to sacrifice his life \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfor his country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is merely a dupe in the profit game of the military-industrial complex. A man who has the courage to stand up against such twisted idealism and refuse to be sacrificed for profiteers is no coward. My opinion of the draft dodger differs from the opinion of many of my peers, but then, my generation is probably one of the biggest collections of fools on record.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Major Ralph E. Hamilton, WW2 Veteran, 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Released on March 24th, 2014 through Friesen Press: \u00c2\u00a0Be All You Can Be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is something sad about a person who blindly sacrifices his life \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfor his country,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for he is unaware of the real issues. If a person can grasp the truth about war, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but color his thinking on such issues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[533,102,8,397,100,80],"tags":[541,542,544,538,535,537,534,539,540,536,543,250],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5475,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5475","url_meta":{"origin":5105,"position":0},"title":"Ralph Hamilton Biography","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"August 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Ralph Eugene Hamilton (1918-1999) was born on September 22, 1918, in Malin, Oregon, where his father, Edward, farmed alfalfa. 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