Pols have no problem sending other people's children to war. How many wars would there be if they were forced to send their own children to fight them or better yet had to fight them themselves? Why?

Republican Theodore Roosevelt lost his son Quentin in WWI.

John Eisenhower, the son of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, served with a combat infantry unit in Korea.

In a bid to save an election, democrat Senator Al Gore Sr. begged Al Gore Jr. to quit dodging service. Little Al went, but strings were pulled to give him non-hazardous duties writing a few articles far from the action. He got an early-out after five months in the country, less than half the standard one year tour of duty.

Al Gore Sr. lost that election, by the way. I guess it was not worth Little Al sticking around after it didn't save his daddy's job.

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