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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Anonymous wrote:Even if I were denied a job at McD's, I wouldn't decide it was time to kill someone in another country....I would still have my morals.[/quote]

[quote]Tough talk from someone who's probably never had to make a truly difficult decision.

Give your children the poor nutrition and healthcare, nonexistent education, greatly increased risk of assault and abuse, terrible role models and peer influences, and countless deprivations of poverty in this country and then tell us what an "idiot" you'd be to consider all alternatives. I guess your ethical system makes letting your children suffer an easy choice. [/quote]

Many of our men and women DO have options.  Yet they CHOOSE to serve.  My oldest will graduate from college at the end of the year.  His college was fully funded.  He spent eight months in Iraq.  And is now in Afghanistan for the next ten months. He didn't have to serve. He chose this life.  He'll graduate from college as an Officer in the US Army, and I couldn't be prouder.

My second child is also in the military.  He chose a different path.  Again, his college was fully funded.  He could have got straight to college.  Instead, he felt it was his obligation to serve.  He leaves for Afghanistan in January.  Again,I couldn't be prouder.

I feel really sorry for you and for your children.  Your "morals" are obviously very different from mine.[/quote]

Would they have chosen this life if it didn't pay for college? 
You'd probably get a lot fewer people who would be proud to serve without that incentive.[/quote]

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