How much combat is the Navy and Air Force seeing right now? If the Son supposedly wanted to "avoid combat" why didn't he joing them?
There seems to be no end to the anti-war activists, who are eager to dance on the graves of their children for a little publicity.
Sympathy, she justly deserves,for She is a Mother who has lost a son, in this war against terrorism.
It is impossible to believe that anyone who chose to enlist in the Military, for the Educational opportunities and other bennies, could be naive enough to expect a guarantee that they would never be asked to put their life on the line. Risky business is what it's all about, and preparation for going into harms way, is what all the training is about, and what warriors are paid for.
As for the Mother being anti-war,isn't everyone? The United States didn't go out looking to start a war-the deranged, spiteful, suicidal idiots of the most radical fringe of a radical cult, brought the war to us.
We all grieve along with Sue over the loss of her precious son, and for all the other lost loved ones of so very many. But being against this war on terrorism is not going to make it go away. It's here, and the only way to make it disappear, is to kill every sonovabitch responsible for giving birth to this insane reign of fear.
Daddy is a cheap screw - or he knew his kid better than his other half.
the kid was a victim, not of the Army or the Government but of his parents; I'm real familiar with that action (and, no, it wasn't me)
I did seven years and suggest everyone send an empty envelope to their bogus scholarship fund (mommy and daddy don't need the new BMW that much).
NOTE: The first thing they do in the official CIA preparatory course at Fort Benning is GIVE YOU A RIFLE, the second thing they do is TELL YOU YOU'RE GOING TO BE SHOT AT....it don't take a college degree to figure those clues out.
"Not for patriotism," said his mother, Sue Niederer, who is now an anti-war activist. She said she advised her son to get the recruiter's promises in writing. When Seth asked, she said the recruiter told him, "Your mother wears your pants for you?"
Losing a child is one of those things that makes people go mad, and the rest of us look the other way.
It's the decent thing to do. Really.
Just look the other way. She's suffering a world of pain that most of us cannot imagine.
Have some decency.
It's Cavity search time.
All around.
GO DEEP
"Seth, who had no training with explosives, was assigned to find enemy remote-controlled bombs."
Gee, they just sent him out there to do that with no training. I can just speculate that this would apply to roughly "all" Army Combat Engineers. What maroon wrote this?
PING
Well, when you join the army "for skills" you must remember that the army is first and foremost an army, so when the army goes to war....well do we really HAVE to read between the lines for everyone?
We had the same thing here with long-term enlistees, who started bleating about the fact they only joined the army for an education. There are not two armies. When you're not deployed, you can take classes, training, etc. When at war, and your company deploys, you play army. You may not like that, but you cannot tell me that the recruiter failed to inform you of the possibility. And, since the army requires a HS diploma, as a minimum, you must be smart enough to figure out the meaning of the word 'army'. But then again, we had a president who wasn't sure of the meaning of the word 'is'...so who knows? Maybe we need to raise the standard a bit higher.