Ouch! That’s A Fine Thing To Do!

By Reg Green

Yes, Tim Walz may have had to give up a promising career in politics if he’d gone to Iraq with the National Guard. But as Winston Churchill told David Niven who, on the verge of stardom in Hollywood, went back to England to join the army early in World War II, “Young man, you did a fine thing to give up your film career to fight for your country. Mark you, had you not done so − it would have been despicable.”