Thank you Conrad, both for serving OUR Country, and telling it like it is. A Full and Fair Count, ,,,,,,,,,,,indeed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conrad Hoffsommer" <hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:21 PM Subject: Re: questions for Richard..off topic > Chief Robin, > At 13:32 12/01/2000 -0500, you wrote: > > On a personal note, the Gore camp's > >contempt for American military personnel removes him from any serious > >contention of being the real Commander-In-Chief. > > This is the thing about he-who-would-do-or-say-anything-to-be-ki.. er..a.. > president which sticks in my craw the deepest. > > Way back when, during the Vietnam War, I was stationed on a ship which > spent a _lot_ of time in the Tonkin Gulf, particularly in 1972. (Remember > the Haiphong blockade?? 75 days at sea between port calls...) At that > time, mailcall was not a daily affair. It might be 2, 3 days or up to a > week between having that mail helo landing on the fantail. > > 1972 was, as you may remember, a presidential election year. I voted > absentee and I sent mine off in plenty of time, I think. > > Here's the rub. My ship was big enough to have it's own mailroom and did > cancel stamped mail, usually. HOWEVER, members of the service in a warzone > do not need postage! All one had to do was to write "free" where the stamp > would go. (That's called "franking" and congress has the same priviledge.) > > Smaller craft would not have mailrooms and their stamped (and franked) mail > would be routed through the Fleet Post Office in San Francisco. The > stamped mail would _then_ get a postmark, or maybe not, which could easily > be more than a week after mailing it. My folks got lots of letters from me > without postmarks. > > Anybody out there still think that excluding military ballots with missing > or late postmarks is fair? > > Does anybody care anymore what the military has to put up with to preserve > the republic? > > Stepping down now from rant mode. > > Conrad Hoffsommer > PO2 USN - Quit when still alive. > > > > Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu > *They call television a medium. That's because it is neither rare nor well > done. > *98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in > complete amazement, abject terror, or both. >
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