Re: OT: Inaugural Ball

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:16:51 -0500

That's what makes me sad when I see 18 and 19 year olds enlisting now. Many
of them don't really know what they are getting themselves in to, and I
can't help but wonder how many of them will also be left feeling that
signing up for this war was a mistake. 

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Sheila
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"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "kathycarp" <kathycarp@comcastprivacy.net> wrote in message
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> | Enlisting during a draft is not the same as "voluntarily joining
> the Army",
> | IMHO, since there really wasn't a choice.
> |
> In my case, there was a choice. I'd just turned 18, my draft number
> wasn't likely to be called, but I had no money for college and my
> folks wanted me out of the house. Since the employment situation was
> lousy at the time, it seemed the logical thing to do.  In
> retrospect, a mistake, but hindsight is always 20/20.
>
> Eliyahu
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