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Originally posted by tranza
Like that would be a first time.... Geez... 
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I meant "personally" as in physically, face-to-face.
Not ordered someone else to do it.
Bush Jr avoided going to war.
Clinton avoided going to war.
Bush Sr was a pilot.*
Reagan may have shot someone in a movie?
... and that's as far back as my age allows me to remember.
Who
was the last US President to fight on the frontlines?
*not saying being a pilot isn't dangerous.
But it's not same as having to stare someone in the eyes before you kill them,
seeing the look on their face as they die, and then washing their blood off you.
I looked it up and Kenedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter
were all in the Navy, but I'm not sure what that meant in those times.
Amazing coincidence, so I'm guessing this was a priviledged position?
Eisenhower was in the army, but a quick search only brings up
vague info like "he commanded" and I don't know if that means
he was actually there, or safely behind the ranks.(?)