Friday, March 9, 2012

Today I regretted not saying yes to the Marine sitting behind the desk in the Oakland Processing Center who had asked me, a young newlywed man who had just been drafted, if I wanted to be a Marine. As a Baha'i, I was classified Non-Combatant, and as such I would surely have been trained as a corpsman and sent to the maelstrom in Vietnam. Would that I could have served valiantly, and given the fullest measure.