The wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said that her husband and sons had not joined the U.S. military but had found “different ways of serving” by going onreligious missions in France, England, Australia and Chile as part of their obligation to the Mormon church....
“When I read about your husband, what I had read — and maybe you can correct this — is that the reason he didn’t serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion,” Goldberg said.
“That’s not correct,” Ann Romney insisted. “He was serving his mission, and my five sons have also served missions. None served in the military, but I do have one son that feels that he’s giving back to his country in a significant way where he is now a doctor and he is taking care of veterans.”
“So, you know, we find different ways of serving,” she added. “And my husband and my five boys did serve missions, did not serve in the military.”
The candidate’s wife explained that Mormon missions were like military service in that “you’re going outside of yourself, you’re working and you’re helping others. And it changes you. And are we so grateful in this country for those people — men and women — that are volunteering, they’re sacrificing their life for us, and we cannot forget that or we have to acknowledge that always.”The Raw Story
Ann Romney: Mormon missions and U.S. military are ‘different ways of serving’
David Edwards
As a Vietnam vet I find this deeply offensive.
Seems that the children of the wealthy and VIPs were too busy doing other things to serve when it came to going in harm's way. Cowards, the lot of them, regardless of political party.
Seems that the children of the wealthy and VIPs were too busy doing other things to serve when it came to going in harm's way. Cowards, the lot of them, regardless of political party.
Wow, that is pretty bad. She is profoundly deluded.
ReplyDeleteBy some accounts, Joesph Smith started as a type of gold prospector.... just sayin' rsp,
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ReplyDeleteTwisted logic similar to W, Dick Cheney, Koch Bros., Pete Peterson, Sheldon Adelson, Michelle Bachmann, the Donald, et al. Twisted logic > twisted mind.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you do in the service, Tom ?
ReplyDeleteCommunications officer, 1964-1967. Two tours of duty in the Western Pacific.
ReplyDeleteShould have added U. S. Naval Reserve on active duty. The duty tour was Officer Candidate School (OCS) for 4 months, then 3 years active duty and three years inactive duty. So my complete tour was 6 years and 4 months. The OCS program was changed in 1994, and is somewhat different now.
ReplyDeleteAs communications officer, I was in the operations department.
It's hard to parse this word salad
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ReplyDeleteAS I SAID EARLIER THIS WEEK
IF THE MORMON GETS INTO OFFICE AND POUNDS A WAR CHEST AND SPEAR,
MORMON MISSIONARY BOYS AROUND THE WORLD WILL HAVE A PALIN TARGET AIMED ON THEM BY 3RD WORLD TERRORISTS
ergo - this is not good for the mormon church and for us to have mitt as prez
CNN, and their "liberal bias", had a biography piece on Governor Romney. In the very beginning, it started with something like "During the Vietnam war (might have said late 1960s), France was a very dangerous place and Mitt Romney was square in the middle of it - there were daily protests and Mitt Romney traveled the streets during those protests to get to his missionary work."
ReplyDeleteMakes me want to puke — on him.
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