| RickeyD |
06-10-2016 01:15 PM |
Muhammad Ali passes. 6/03/2016.
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Originally Posted by spuds51
(Post 1238988)
Maybe, how knows? Ted Williams was a star baseball player and served three years during WWII and was called back to active duty during the Korea war/police action. He flew in 39 combat missions. He didn't want to go either, nor did most that were drafted.
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WWII was a war where every able bodied man & woman was needed to destroy the axis. Vietnam was no threat to our national security. Thus, Ali definitely would have been used for a PR campaign to never see combat.
Honestly, if I were a black man of draft age in the sixties I wouldn't serve either. Knowing myself, I would have shed my slave name as well. He was a product of the time. A time when inequality was considered fairness by the majority. |
