Comments on: Supreme Court To Lose Only Veteran

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By: mike_brewer

mike_brewer — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:40:56 +0000

of course you know I meant,”make” quite a team. ADD is hell!
Mayor Bob Walkup served in the Army Corps of Engineers. Steve Leal, while he is out of office, but still engaged politically with a talk show on 1330 JOLT, served in the United States Navy in Vietnam. On the State level you have Jonathan Paton/ Army and Frank Antenori/ Army Special Forces.

As a footnote to history, few ever knew that Councilman Rudy Bejarano was an Army Bronze Star recipient. Rudy Castro was a Marine. John Jones the Director of Special Projects for the City was an Army Captain in Vietnam.

One thing I do know, is that veterans, having seen and accomplished tasks that polite society does not see, are often motivated by a magnanimity that stays with them for life. They just want to make the world a better place. Remember, that St. Francis of Assisi and Ignatius Loyola were warriors first. The founding of the Orders of Franciscans and Jesuits came later. I love to tell friends it was because they had a problem with authority!

Maybe I will take some time to share with TC.com readers the biographies of some of our nations leaders, artists and activists who were inspired to serve by their own service in the Armed Forces.

By: mike_brewer

mike_brewer — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:27:37 +0000

One might say that the job description of a Supreme Court Justice is, “codebreaking.” Thanks for the additional Biographical material. We may quite a team eh?

By: tiponeill

tiponeill — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:12:31 +0000

Consider the proportion of the populatio0n in the services in WWII, then Vietnam, and now our little joke wars like desert storm or Panama.
You can’t expect to maintain as high a percentage of veterans under current conditions.
cholla has a point: “We need people, men and women, who understand serving a greater good, subjugating their own wants for the needs of the whole.”
We need more community organizers

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:51:19 +0000

Well, on the current Tucson City Council, I know that newly elected Councilmember Richard Fimbres is a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran, but not sure of anyone else. Mike, do you know which other local politicians are vets or have served in the reserves?

By: Jim Kelley

Jim Kelley — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:45:45 +0000

Well, I find it interesting tha so many Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are now running for office. I good friend of mine who is a Veteran of the Gulf War is running for a County Supervisor seat in a liberal county of Maryland and he is doing well. I think in general, people are waking up a little to the fact of no politicians with military experience means, weak politicians who have never served a purpose greater than themselves. We need people, men and women, who understand serving a greater good, subjugating their own wants for the needs of the whole. The Veteran understands that.

By: cashgreen

cashgreen — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:32:47 +0000

The sad part is fewer and fewer of our elected officials have military service. We are electing those that can never understand.

By: Carolyn Classen

Carolyn Classen — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:55:32 +0000

Thanks Mike for mentioning this military service. I checked wikipedia and it says that Justice Stevens "decided to join the United States Navy, He enlisted on December 6, 1941, one day before Pearl Harbor and served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945. Stevens was awarded a Bronze Star for his service in the codebreaking team whose work led to the downing of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943."