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For Ann Romney to suggest that a two year stint for the church in peacetime Paris is in any way equivalent to serving in Vietnam is an insult to all those brave men and women who did. Incredibly she then went on to say, "Mitt was serving his mission and my five sons have also served missions. None served in the military, but I do have one son that feels he is giving back to his country in a significant way where he is now a doctor and is taking care of veterans. So, you know, we find different ways of serving." Romney further said, "... and my boys did serve missions, and they went away for two years, and I sent them away boys, and they came back men, and I think this is where military service is so extraordinary too, where you literally do something where you're helping someone else, you're going outside of yourself and you're working and helping others, and that changes you."

Today with a volunteer military many of our elected leaders will never serve. Bill Clinton never served and neither did Barack Obama, but I believe they are able to serve successfully as commander in chief. They never claimed that they did anything equivalent to serving in the military and they understand that there is very little that is equivalent to putting your life on the line for your country.

I would hope that Ann and Mitt Romney would rethink this. If Mitt Romney agrees with his wife that his Mormon mission and partying in Paris was the same as serving in the military then this is just another reason he is unfit to be commander in chief.