Posted on 08/11/2005 10:32:28 AM PDT by Wolfie
Parent-Trap Snares Recruiters
The tune changes at some homes when they hear 'sign here'
Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents.
It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.
"I want you to know we support you," she gushed.
Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.
"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.
"Parental consent is the toughest thing we face right now," said Rivera's boss, Maj. Michael Sherman, 36, commander of the recruiting battalion headquartered in Pittsburgh. "There are so many kids just waiting for their 18th birthday, so they can enlist."
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Isn't that special?
Guess we can call them PINO's (Patriots In Name Only.)
"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him."
And what kind of people would that be? Turds?
I wonder if the freedom provided by the military service of others is for "her kind of people."
Why do I doubt the accuracy of that quote? Matter of fact, why do I doubt that this woman even exists?
A carefully planned 'Hawks are hypocrites' story.
The Belmont Club blog had a post where it noted the percentage of Americans serving in the civil war and WWII vice Americans serving today. Something like 75% of men btwn the ages of 18 and 45 were in uniform in both of the earlier wars compared with 2% today. Parents may "support" the troops, but God forbid junior becoming one of them.
Our kind of people???
The main problem highlighted in the article seems to be that Army reserve is way off its goal, and I'll bet anything THAT is because they're losing all the people who used to sign up for the benefits in the belief that America would never be in another shooting war in a zillion years.
She's right. It's for people who are better than her.
You guys are falling into a trap. The Pittsburgh Putz-Gazoo is a labor/dem rag and they are trying to say that well-to-do types (republicans)say they support the war but won't let their kids fight, it is poor kids that have to fight.
This sounds like the Andrew Sullivan column a couple years ago where he basicly said that (paraphrasing from memory) military service is for the proles, not for the likes of me.
That's what my dad said and he was a WW2 vet. And he volunteered. He said that if you are smart enough to get intol college, you have no reason to be in the military.
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Yeah, that's such a line of dooky. I can't believe anyone falls for the "poor have to fight" stuff.
No one makes anyone enlist, poor, rich, white, or black.
ROFL!!!
What a bitch. She thinks the lesser of us should be in the military. I didn't have to enlist. I had options, but I felt strongly I wanted to give something for my country. Hearing people express attitudes that self-centered boil my blood.
If her son was disabled or something, that's fine. If not, then taking 4 years out of his life would be a great experience for him. It was for me.
My mother wouldn't have signed either and told me so, and that was back in 92-93. I waited till I was 18 and signed for myself.
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