Originally Posted by idrankwhat96

This is an all-VOLUNTARY military. I grew up dirt poor. You know what I did? I worked hard at a foundry near where I lived. Started sweeping the floors then worked up to supervisor then to management. I didn’t join the military in ’94. Why? Because I didn’t want to shoot people! The people in the military knew going in what could happen. They weighed the options of the benefits the military will give with the possibility of going to war. Plus the option of working, there’s a concept, WORKING. They chose to take the benefits. Now some want to take the benefits AND not go to war. In their contract, which they should have read, it said they could be called after their obligation is up if we are at war. It didn’t say ‘unless you feel it’s a just war’. I feel their pain but I’m also a realist. People need to take responsibility for their own lives for once. I didn’t hear the anti-war people when we went into samolia and lost lives there. Its hypocrisy at its worst.