As a note: I'm unfortunately an only child, and female, and the end of my
line, so I'd never see combat anyway. And I wouldn't really be that much use
flying a desk in the Marines with my latent talents (and the latent list of
things I naturally flop at.) So, put that with knees that refuse to work
properly under stress and cold weather.....I've chosen to do what I'm good
at instead. ( Jewelry design and several other artforms.) At least I'm
keeping the economy going. :-)
My fiancé, however, served as an Army Paratrooper before we met, with
several jumps into combat areas. His Father was a Air Force officer, and
mine was a Sgt. in the Marines, motor transport div. Both of my grandfathers
saw service in Japan and the South Pacific, one with the Marines, one Air
Force. One of my uncles, now deceased, was in the Navy during Nam, doing
radio related reconnaissance, another was in the Army at the same time, and
still has vivid flashbacks due to the things he saw there.

Not like my family hasn't contributed.
And I've certainly no intention of discouraging my children from enlisting,
when I have kids and they are old enough.
Murri

"Ann" wrote in message
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escape expounded:

Are your kids signed up yet?

Funny you should ask. The younger tried, but believe it or not, his
feet are too big (at size 16). The older one is covered in tattooes,
so they won't take him, either. That somehow negates my ability to
think for myself and disagree with you, I guess. Tough.

Everyone isn't poor, depressed, living in economic hardship, Victoria.
You aren't, are you? I'm certainly not. I live in a fairly affluent
area, and there are plenty of people with kids enlisted around me.
And that in the bluest of the blue states......
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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