America's upper classes have gone AWOL

bulletandpima
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:24:54 +0000

will preface this that I AM AN ACTIVE DUTY SPOUSE.

Why not a draft:
1. Americans are partisan on whether we belong there. If I hear one more time I support the troops, but not the war I will spit. If you support the troops, then don’t say that what they are doing is wrong. Saying I know you are doing your duty, but what you are doing is wrong, is double-speak
2. Forcing someone to do a job that they do not want to do, is not a good solution…it only will add into the partisanship over the war
3. CINDY SHEEHAN. Cindy Sheehan paid the ultimate price. She lost her son due to war, but she paid a lot more. Her daughter is married to an Army NCO and publicly disowned her mother. Her husband for whatever personal reasons left her and they are now divorced. So now the Sheehan family has been shattered.

I don’t believe in a draft. My DH flies, if the jet goes down or there is a SAM on their A**, as a spouse I want to make sure they give a crap, and are not in the service b/c they had to! I want the crew to be there b/c they have this unspoken support…“I will die before I leave you” I want their adrenaline pumping, I want them to want to be there. I don’t want someone who says you made me and “I need to get myself out of here”… which one do you want? The one who wants to be there or the one forced?

Our system works we don’t need a draft.

I AM SORRY IF THIS CAME OFF WRONG, BUT IT IS INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO MY HEART B/C THE LOVE OF MY LIFE AND FATHER OF MY CHILDREN FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THESE QUESTIONS.

What we should have our politicians talk about is having our college age children due to a GAP year for national service, be it military, peace corps, teaching, etc