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Subject: [NYC] Fw: USS WISCONSIN
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:12:55 -0400




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From: Dom Menta
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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 8:04 PM
Subject: USS WISCONSIN


Received this from Lou Sinagra, A Div. 1953-1955 and Past President of the Association
Thanks Lou. Very interesting reading.
Subject: Great answer from Senator Glenn

You know, some people still don't understand why military
personnel do what they do for a living.

This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Howard

Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why
men and women in the Uniformed Services do what they do for a living. An
example of what those who have never served think of the Military.

Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for
Senate when you've never held a real "job"?"
Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States
Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane
was hit by antiaircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the
space program. It wasn't my checkbook; it was my Life on the line. It was not
a nine to five job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts
to the bank.. I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day to a Veterans
Hospital and look at those men with their mangled bodies in the eye
and tell them they didn't hold a job.You go with me to the space program and go as I have gone to
the widows and orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee
and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad didn't hold
a job.


You go with me on Memorial Day coming up and you stand in
Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends than I'd like to
remember and you watch those waving flags.
You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you
tell me that those people didn't have a job.
I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your
knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men -
SOME MEN - who held a job.
And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of
country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life
itself.
And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible...I HAVE
HELD A JOB, HOWARD!
What about you?"

Your Shipmate
Dom

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