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"LaDonna Wyss" wrote in message om... "Ami Silberman" wrote in message ... "LaDonna Wyss" wrote in message . com... "Ami Silberman" wrote in message ... No, a NASA operation. Even "stuffy" wouldn't argue that it was a military operation. AS-204 was not under military command or control. It did involve several military personnel as flight crew. Heck, does this mean that the LA Raiders' games in 1986 were military operations since running back Napoleon McCullum was on active duty in the Navy (but permitted to play for the Raiders that season.) Is my D&D game a military operation since one of my players is in the Marine Corps Active Reserve? I realize I'm getting older, but surely with the news coverage of the past week you have heard of the "Cold War?" What do you think the race to the Moon was all about? Just a bunch of flyboys getting the ride of their lives courtesy of our tax dollars, with which of course we had absolutely nothing better to do with that money? As for D&D, I think that says a lot about the person to whom I am speaking. I've lived through a major part of the Cold War. I understand that the race to the moon was part of the Cold War. Not everything in the Cold War was a military operation, in fact, most of it wasn't. Voice of America was not a military operation, and neither was the Peace Corps. The fact is that the astronauts were not on active military operations. They died in the service of our country, but they did not die in its defense. By your logic, the civilian contractors who died during the Apollo program also died in the defense of our country. To my mind, considering the astronauts to have died "in defense of our country" cheapens the memories of those who died in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere while on active duty and in combat with the enemy. I think it is very fuzzy-minded to conflate the two (dying in service to the country, and dying in defense of the country), and we can even add "dying while in service to the country" to take into account non-combat deaths in the military. And what does D&D say about me? Does it say anything more than a Google search on my name does? |
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