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To: Ilaine who wrote (53214)	7/10/2000 5:43:02 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 71178

You are a victim IMO of media manipulation. You have bought into government coercion and manipulation. I helped involuntarily build the Navy Stadium in Philadelphia and the Iwo Jima memorial. I lined up for my pay -- a pitiful $81 dollars a month, so low that there was not even an income tax deduction, and the pay officer demanded contributions to these rackets before he would give me my miserable pay. The money to subsidize the Blue Angels and to bury the victims and replace the planes is taken from people at the point of a gun. They jail you if you do not pay. That's okay with me where the taxes are truly necessary, but to pay for hoodwinking the poor and for glorifying war and unnecessary human sacrifice seems a crime to me. As for kids today, I daresay I've far more experience than you. My son was pursued for months by recruiting officers. They took him to ceremonies, and let him play with the three military bands he had out here. Three bands -- no one goes to their concerts. What good do they do? Since I knew he'd never join up I urged him not to waste the recruiters' time, but a bandsman counted just the same as a warrior, so they kept waste their time (our money!). I usually counsel at least one young officer every term about his career choices. Most of them are highly intelligent and competent young officers. Occasionally one knows he has to leave the service because he is a homosexual and wants some freedom of sexual expression. Others want to marry but cannot endure a life of sudden separation from their families and lack of consideration by their services. I believe them when they say that they would pursue a military career if they were treated honestly with dignity. I almost never find an undergraduate who seeks a military career. Most undergraduates want to live in Hawaii where they expect to be treated without discrimination unlike in the service where racial preferences seem to be rife. I have never run into any officer who had a thirst for glory. A tomb in Arlington appeals to them not at all. Everyone would prefer decent treatment while alive.

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