Who is your favorite athlete and why ??
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i didn't mean for this to become a debate about war and dying but your direct respose to my input on favorite athletes touched a nerve. Of course 2/3rds of those serving in combat arenas are volunteers considrering the Air Force, Navy and Marines are all voluntary. Also consider that so many volunteerd to go Direct Army as opposed to Draft to gain an MOS (Militaty Occumpational Speciaty) to avoid combat. Consider aigain that the permanent members of the Armed Forces (lifers they were called) were also from lower economic groups that saw the military as relief. These are also included in your "volunteer" numbers. Concentrate on the 55,000 on "The Wall". Your skewed statistics will reveal a different piciture. Less than 10% of those seved actually face combat direct support and the balance are those you speak of having "volunteered". Numbers and percentages can be read to achieve any position. I stand by what I said . More poor and lower middle class died simpy because they could not afford to avoid the draft during '65-'70 in Viet Nam. The same goes on today. Wars are fougnt by the less foruntate members of our society. I won't respond further as it could go on 'ad infanitum'' I am sure with others contributing.
i didn't mean for this to become a debate about war and dying but your direct respose to my input on favorite athletes touched a nerve. Of course 2/3rds of those serving in combat arenas are volunteers considrering the Air Force, Navy and Marines are all voluntary. Also consider that so many volunteerd to go Direct Army as opposed to Draft to gain an MOS (Militaty Occumpational Speciaty) to avoid combat. Consider aigain that the permanent members of the Armed Forces (lifers they were called) were also from lower economic groups that saw the military as relief. These are also included in your "volunteer" numbers. Concentrate on the 55,000 on "The Wall". Your skewed statistics will reveal a different piciture. Less than 10% of those seved actually face combat direct support and the balance are those you speak of having "volunteered". Numbers and percentages can be read to achieve any position. I stand by what I said . More poor and lower middle class died simpy because they could not afford to avoid the draft during '65-'70 in Viet Nam. The same goes on today. Wars are fougnt by the less foruntate members of our society. I won't respond further as it could go on 'ad infanitum'' I am sure with others contributing.
toma....
imo ali was the greatest boxer of all time.....
the first ali/frazier fight was the best match that i have ever seen.....
but i don't consider ali to be a classy athlete....
only because he publicly embarrassed some of his opponents before he fought them....
when he likened frazier to a gorilla i thought it was very un-classy move...from what i have read it had bothered frazier years after their fights....
and i understand the promotion aspect of it...
so to me a classy athlete is somebody that respects his opponent
imo ali was the greatest boxer of all time.....
the first ali/frazier fight was the best match that i have ever seen.....
but i don't consider ali to be a classy athlete....
only because he publicly embarrassed some of his opponents before he fought them....
when he likened frazier to a gorilla i thought it was very un-classy move...from what i have read it had bothered frazier years after their fights....
and i understand the promotion aspect of it...
so to me a classy athlete is somebody that respects his opponent
Blazer said:
"ON THE BASIS OF GAME PLAY" is what my post says. Also, his antics are over-reported and many are bs.
Reggie Jackson.
The home-run king of my childhood. He either struck out, or went deep. Every at-bat was exciting. To this day, 44 is my lucky number.
The home-run king of my childhood. He either struck out, or went deep. Every at-bat was exciting. To this day, 44 is my lucky number.
