[AT] a dish best served cold.

Cecil E Monson cmonson at hvc.rr.com
Mon Oct 4 03:15:44 PDT 2004


> I am a vet of that time and when I came home(yes in Montana)it did in fact
> happen!!!!Not spit on but some things worse......like the questions of why
> did you go?  and they all knew that there was a draft with an 8 yr.
> obligation(yes obligation)but I went obligation or not and did not go to
> another country to escape.....I was proud till I came home to that!
> 
> Frank



	We all went when our time came to go, Frank. If I remember right
we didn't have much choice. I wondered when my son was born if there was
going to be a war when he became draft age but it didn't happen. I don't
begrudge anyone the time I spent on active duty - 5 years - and would do
it again in a second if it were necessary. I also had an 8 year obligation.
Was called for a physical in late fall of 1951 and enlisted in January
of 1952. Spent 3 years overseas. Two of my brothers were in the 82nd
Airborne Division. They went with the draft and volunteered for Airborne.
I doubt anyone had the balls to pick on either of them - in or out of the
service.

Cecil
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what you said.

Cecil E Monson
Lucille Hand-Monson
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