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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181420)	1/23/2004 8:55:54 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574194

Any soldier can tell you that he or she is in the military so that their loved ones back home don't have to be. That's the dumbest thing have read today. The vast majority of kids enlist right out of high school and have absolutely no sense of the spirit of patriotism you like to tell youself about above. They are lured with incentives and they bite because of their social background and limited choices. Today uncle sam is having to pay re-enlistment bonuses of up to 10K to retain folks...if they re-enlist while on foreign soil, it's tax free. That seems like a lot of money to a typical soldier that lives paycheck to paycheck, has car payments, and sometimes a wife. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181420)	1/23/2004 6:18:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574194

Ted, Fighting a war for your country is not about someone else doing it for you. Any soldier can tell you that he or she is in the military so that their loved ones back home don't have to be. Our duty is to honor and support those very soldiers, and to never take their sacrifices for granted. BS! Double BS! Its the responsibility of every a citizen to defend his/her country! We have it easy that there are people doing it for us. The more I read posts like yours, the more I realize John F. is right. ted