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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 02:43 AM
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HRC: "The soldiers and the veterans..."
Oh man. I wonder if she even knows she pissed off the Navy and the Marines?
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 02:45 AM
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1. What happened?
:shrug:

Did she say that in her speech? I only heard a portion of it.
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:15 AM
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4. Yep!
I only caught a bit too, but she stepped in it there. Oops.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 02:47 AM
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2. Need more information please
I have no Idea what you are talking about.
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gmudem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:17 AM
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6. My guess
is that the OP means that not all veterans are soldiers. In the Navy they are called sailors and in the Air Force they are airmen or airwomen.
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:22 AM
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8. It would seem
that you are right.
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:17 AM
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7. At one point in Hillary's speech tonight, quoted above, she offended 3/4 of our armed services.
Edited on Wed May-07-08 04:19 AM by mahina
Soldiers=Army.
Marines=Marines.
Sailors=Navy.
Air Force=Airmen.

HRC=clueless.
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 05:39 AM
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13. Dont forget the coast guard and merchant marines and the
civil air patrol for Christs sake. Is this the best example of why people hate HRC? Isn't there something more to the hate? I mean isn't this just a pimple on a gnats ass?
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 01:10 PM
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14. Never hated her.
Ever.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 01:42 PM
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16. I think we veterans are used to such conflation by now.
As an ex-Army sergeant, I'm offended that any Marine, sailor or airman would be honored with the name "soldier," and will only grudgingly concede on "military." :7

Seriously, though, it's been going on for decades, and is especially understandable in a protracted land war. I bear no particular animus toward Clinton for this common error. If she'll end the goddamned war, she can call me Marine!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 03:07 AM
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3. common mistake with people who have not served
that would include the overwhelming majority of DUers
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:49 AM
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12. No, common mistake among people who don't know anybody who has served.
Or been corrected by them.

This is boot camp drill, that "my part is special and it has this name".

There's pride attached to that name.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:17 AM
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5. Can you expand on that at all?
I watched her speech tonight, but by the time she gave it, I was getting pretty loopy from hours and hours of primary watching.
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:25 AM
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9. I don't feel pissed off
this "mistake" happens quite frequently. And besides this ex sailor could care less. I hate the special treatment given to veterans and soldiers anyway. For draft era victims i have more sympathy but not for volunteers. It is only a job and not worthy of the prima donna status politicians try to give it. But the is just my opinion.
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mahina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:34 AM
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10. Okeydokey.
You're a more forgiving sort.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 04:44 AM
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11. Peons who couldn't afford her "suffering".
She has no clue.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-07-08 01:14 PM
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15. This EXmarine isn't pissed at her. I just hold her in contempt.
Which has nothing to do with the 4 seemingly endless years I spent in the Crotch.
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