Thanks for serving our country, and then going ape-shit in the olympic 10k to destroy the field!
Thanks for serving our country, and then going ape-shit in the olympic 10k to destroy the field!
+1 Great post
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i completely forgot about Mills having been in the Marines. i feel so ashamed of myself now
Billy Mills is a partiot. That kick in the Olympic Final is one of the most amazing things in running history
Never gets old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOj0zjPzg-c
dancing cougar runner wrote:
Thanks for serving our country, and then going ape-shit in the olympic 10k to destroy the field!
Fellow veteran Bob Schul didn't exactly embarass himself or his country at the same Olympics. Look up the video on his finish.
Then there is Wes Santee and how many others. American running history runs a lot deeper than just Pre and Mills.
Do non-Americans get excited for the "LOOK AT MILLS" call? I love that, but I've always wondered if everyone appreciates it.
Not to stir a pot, but didn't Burfoot and Rodgers protest against the same Vietnam war that Mills served in ?
Mills also competed in the 1964 Olympic marathon and placed 14th.
Mick Lovin wrote:
Not to stir a pot, but didn't Burfoot and Rodgers protest against the same Vietnam war that Mills served in ?
Mills also competed in the 1964 Olympic marathon and placed 14th.
True. Rodgers had to serve as a janitor someplace due to this.
W. Bush didn't want to commit genocide in Asia so he went into the Texas National Guard. Anti-war folks dodged infantry service in Vietnam by joining the non-combat services (Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force). Still every Navy boot dreaded the Pentagon's "death sentence", which was assignment as a Navy Hospital Corpsman, a virtual guarantee you'd be coming back in a dozen separate zip-loc bags in a larger body bag. Infantry enlistments were so low the Pentagon inducted 16 year olds, high school dropouts, delinquents, and aliens. The Pentagon drafted men into the Army and would sentence every 10th man in line to death by drafting them into the Marines. Marine Recruits who feigned homosexuality, illness, physical inabilities (in order to get of of Nam) were tortured, thrown down the stairwell, drowned in swamps, and driven to suicide by sadistic training methods. Congress instituted monthly onsite reviews of Marine training and Corrections Facilities, but glossed over the abuse for political expediency.
Did Mills serve in a War as defined by Congress? If not, he is simply a Gold Medalist, not a Veteran.
This is kind of tongue in cheek. Mills is awesome.
Semper Fi wrote:
Did Mills serve in a War as defined by Congress? If not, he is simply a Gold Medalist, not a Veteran.
This is kind of tongue in cheek. Mills is awesome.
Doesn't matter. Technically, he is a veteran because he served in the armed forces. Veterans of specific wars usually identify themselves as "WWII vets", etc.
Also, technically speaking, Congress only declared war five times: Spanish-American War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812, WWI, and WWII. The rest are just congressionally authorized military engagements.
Anyone who has served offered their life to the service of this country, whether or not it was voluntarily, whether or not they agreed with the reasons for military engagement, and whether or not they were ever actually in hazardous duty zones.
Billy Mills is a veteran, although I can't honestly say he was a standout marine because I just don't know. I do know he was one hell of a runner and did something incredible for the sport!
Runners, they don't make them like they used.