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Entry: Responding to My Respondents Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/responding_to_my_respondents#23627 Post contents: General McGinty, You are wrong. Reagan did serve in the military during WWII. Prior to the war he was an officer in the horse Cavalry (National Guard or Reserve?), and spent the war making training films at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California as the Adjutant (Captain), along with Alan Ladd (Corporal) and a late friend of mine, Ted Read who was a Sergent - photographer. Ted tried several times to get sent to Europe, but was frozen at the unit. Reagan would have had the same problem. By the way, Reagan didn't have to serve since he was 30 years old with two kids in the early forties. John Wayne also had a couple of kids and was even a few years older. His comment was that "Ah, they weren't going to let me fight." So he made movies propagandistic for our side which surely had greater value for the war effort than being an aging G.I. in the line. The point is that some had value other than fighting in the line. During WWII, my own father was in his early thirties, and spent the war working in a GM defense plant in Linden, NJ instead of losing his family which my mother advised he would do if he enlisted. I myself, a Vietnam veteran both in the military and as a civilian contractor, recognize we all can't be Audie Murphy's like I'm sure you were. Sent at: 2008 11 23