Some now decry the way George W. Bush served our country during the Vietnam era. They point out that when he was obligated to serve, April 1972 to May 1973, he apparently did not show up. They are overlooking the quality of W's service. Why, he served our country then every bit as well as Dan Quayle, his father's vice-president. Quayle did his best to protect the golf courses of Indiana from military invasion from abroad. W, we know, did no less. In fact, he did more. He volunteered. He extended himself beyond the exertions of Dan Quayle's golf sorties.

A patriot, like George W. Bush, could and did serve our country in other ways, while obligated to the Guard. He may not have made it to the armories or air fields in Alabama, where he was supposed to show up, but according to some of the older Republican women...