In her Feb. 13 letter, Eileen Hinds has shame mixed up with irrelevance (“Military service: Bush should learn to live with choices”). My dictionary defines irrelevant, as in her letter as “not relevant – no bearing upon the matter at hand.” Her partisan left-leaning attack upon President Bush is totally irrelevant to the matter at hand – the war on terror, of which Iraq and Afghanistan are the front lines. How can she be given any relevance when the subject of President Bush’s honorable military service in the Texas Army National Guard is fact? He has an honorable discharge just like every other American that honorably served his country. Besides being “not-relevant,” Ms. Hinds’ letter isn’t true. The President flew F102 Fighters in the National Guard and he showed up, contrary to Ms. Hinds’ statement that he “didn’t even bother to show up.”
President Bush served along with me and millions of other Vietnam era veterans, and we are proud of his and our service, not like a number of other prominent politicians, for example, former President Clinton and Sen. Kerry.
President Bush is “living with the consequences of his choices” and is leading the fight in another of America’s wars, this one for the very survival of your and my way of life. It is hard for me to remove the image of women and men jumping from the World Trade Center buildings rather than burn to death. The war on terrorism is real and 3,000 civilians and many military men have paid the ultimate price. That is relevant.
If Ms. Hinds wants to attack President Bush, she should at least do it on a relevant basis.
Everett
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