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To: unclewest who wrote (97521)1/29/2005 12:56:47 PM
From: Sig   of 793817
 
.>>How much money would it take for you to advise your two sons that front-line combat to fight our enemies is honorable and necessary and they must volunteer? >>>

What are their chances of getting assigned to the front lines in ground combat.
Very slim, and where is the front line, and who can guess what a specialty a volunteer will be assigned to do.?

Your sons in service will not become drug addicts or live under a freeway overpass without medical care and they will qualify for college and insurance.And have companionship.

Fifty electric power linesmen get killed each year. And they may do the same job for 20 years. Would you worry about them each day, or tell tehem to get a dreary desk job. ?

The MSM is doing the US a great dis-service by concentrating on the combat casualties without putting them in proportion to other means of dying which people do on daily basis.

In any occupation, people will screw up, cars, aircraft and subs will crash, wildfires will burn, and servicemen will die even if there is no combat.

Why did the MSM not keep daily track of servicemens deaths when there was no war? Is it only a war that kills?

War is not the best time to recruit people who are trying to play life safe, but that is counteracted by those who seek excitement and adventure and a sense of duty.

Payment offered will have to be an experiment, if it becomes too high (in governmental eyes) then a draft will loom but the time is not yet.

Sig
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