On 10/28/2014 kittymomNC said: On 10/28/2014 MomTo2Dogs said: On 10/28/2014 kittymomNC said: No, I was not talking about one person. I was talking about who I said I was talking about, including Dr. Brantley, Nancy Writebol, Dr. Spencer, etc. and including the people in CT who are in "quarantine" (no they were not health care workers, but they were in Africa to help with other things), and if the policeman standing outside their door is carrying a gun, then they are "armed guards" any way you look at it.
In my personal opinion, too much of what is said here gets convoluted and twisted around by other posters so the whole meaning of the original post is lost. It's sad that we can't do better than this.... and it's just come down to an "I'm right and you're wrong" contest.
<em>I have said more than once that I was not comparing the Vietnam War to an epidemic in Africa. I am not comparing the Vietnam draft to medical volunteers. I am not comparing millions of veterans to a few health workers.</em>
I'm making a comparison of two separate situations, <em>even with all their differences</em>, that do have one thing in common... <em>The way they were treated when they came home, which was with disrespect and some ridicule .</em> If no one can "get" that, so be it.
You need to go back and reread your posts because what you're saying here doesn't jibe.
It isn't that people don't "get" that, its that you're all over the board, no pun intended, with your thoughts. I find reading your writings rather chaotic. I'm sorry.
I'm no longer sure what your point is other than some people are "bad" and some are "good" depending on what their opinions are about Kaci, health care workers and quarantine.
I'm done.
There are some who agree with what I'm trying to get across, and maybe the reason you find my posts "chaotic" is how many times people have twisted my words around. I don't consider anyone "good" or anyone "bad", and I don't think my posts have indicated that. I just don't like the disrepect shown to these people.
I tried to call a truce, but if that's not what you want, so be it.
ETA: Here is the "infamous" portion of the post I wrote with the Vietnam comment at the end which has caused so much contentiousness - we don't really know a thing about what these people have been through and how scary it must have been to be in the middle of the epidemic in Africa.
But they went, and they did the jobs they chose to do, and I'm sure sacrificing much in order to do it. And they come back here and guess what it reminds me of? The way the returning soldiers were treated so disrespectfully and dishonorably when they came back from the Vietnam War. That was a blot on our American history, and I hope history doesn't repeat itself now over this disease.
Many peoples' words on this board are twisted. Motives cast that are just not there. Using words like HATE, etc. when there is no hate meant. Plain words not hate.
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