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To: i-node who wrote (384709)5/17/2008 1:40:35 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1575738
 
David, > I think this is all stuff you wouldn't understand.

Ted doesn't have a kid, so he wouldn't know the fears a parent has to go through if the kid chooses to become a police officer, a firefighter, or yes, even a soldier.

One of the best lines I heard on the CBS show, "The Unit," was said when a mother was trying to get some social worker to convince her kid not to join the military. The mother said, "But he's just a kid!"

To which the social worker replied, "Who do you think fights our wars?"

Tenchusatsu



To: i-node who wrote (384709)5/17/2008 1:48:43 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1575738
 
I'm sure your son heard the exact same jingoistic crap you spew constantly on this thread his ENTIRE life. He's in Iraq due to a LIFETIME of bad programming from YOU.

If he survives, perhaps he'll learn what a provincial moron you are.



To: i-node who wrote (384709)5/17/2008 9:00:36 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1575738
 
I think any parent would be opposed to his or her son suspending a promising engineering education to fight in Iraq or anywhere else. Still, he felt strongly about it and it isn't my place to persuade him otherwise; he is an informed adult. I don't think I would have felt right about it had I persuaded him to go against his own values.

Good. I am glad to hear it.