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instead of honestly debating my points...

I was being facetious because I can't take you seriously. Your only information comes from movies and newspapers, and you don't even have the historical context to understand your own argument (as evidenced by your confusion as to why I mention Eisenhower. That's like showing up at a General Relativity seminar and asking who Einstein is.)

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you know what a corporation entails

Yes, and I don't know why you keep going on about it. The question was whether or not the President has ever been a civilian. Do you really think you're going to find a constitutional law professor who would say that the role of President is not and never has been civilian? (because that was the claim)

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i never mentioned your friends or real life relationships

I said that the respect for my resume is shown by the people who hire me, and the relationships we build thereafter. You argued that this is not true because I was hired by a corporation... as if they were mutually exclusive? The whole "corporation=people" argument was made as a matter of a freedom of speech (and I thoroughly disagree with that argument) but disagreeing with that argument does not mean that corporations are not comprised of people who choose who they want to have working for them.

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ok, so because amoral corporations choose to hire veterans that somehow means that the general populace home and abroad respects the military

When I said that people in my profession are respected, I was only speaking from my personal experience, and from the experience of the hundreds of other people that I personally know who did my job and who are similarly respected by all their employers and coworkers. People have looked up to me wherever I've gone. Your insults are the first opposition I've encountered in six years of post-military life, so you'll excuse me if I consider you an anomaly.

But whatever. You insist on calling me dishonest when you don't even realize 1) that I understand & share your concerns, and 2) that you don't even know the history of your own subject matter. Neither of these things lends credibility to your cause; I am "indoctrinated" in the same way that scientists are "indoctrinated" to believe that evolution is true, so you and Ray Comfort here can rejoice in having a group of people to down-rate my comments in support of your position, but the fact remains that you don't know what you're talking about and your position is short-sighted (again, admirable in its idealism, but not thoroughly considered).

At any rate, this is the last I'll speak of it here. No point in wasting more of my time on this.