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Extended duty is nothing new

I meet with mixed emotions how everyone is concerned about the soldiers being extended overseas by 35 to 40 days. There is no one more concerned about the morale of the military than me. I am a retired Army officer with over 20 years in the military. We were taught to receive orders from our leaders without complaint, so we did.

In 1961, we were told that all of us stationed overseas would have our overseas duty extended one year by President Kennedy. His thinking was that there was such an outflow of gold from the Untied States that he had a plan to stop the flow. He figured that everyone who had already been overseas for a long time had already bought all the overseas trinkets that they wanted and had quit spending money and would thereby keep their money in their pocket. I had to stay an extra year.

I was also in Korea for Truman's war.

You can look this up and you will find that I am right.

Gordon L. Stevens

Delphi