Urth Digest, Vol 51, Issue 18

Adam Thornton · 06 Nov 2008, 21:50 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:50:36 -0600
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 51, Issue 18
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	<1f7617370811061328o29d7a0ebpc399c4e28d88d2e9 at mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>
> This is often repeated, and NOT true. You had to do a tour of  
> government
> service, but it did not have to be military. However, once you  
> volunteered,
> you went where they put you, so you could easily wind up in the  
> military
> without intending to.

This might be true.

It is certainly what _Expanded Universe_ says.

But it does not appear to be what the text of _Starship Troopers_ says.

There's an excellent essay by David Gifford examining this discrepancy.

http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/ftp/fedrlsvc.pdf

Adam
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