[xm177e2]

He joined the army for money and skills that, he was told, would help land him a job with the CIA or FBI -- his dream jobs. "Not for patriotism," said his mother, Sue Niederer, who is now an anti-war activist.

I wonder why he wanted to work at the CIA or FBI. Patriotism, perchance?

[hershey]

I wonder why Sue Niederer doesn't spend a few minutes looking at videos of 9/11 and then pondering what might happen if they blew up the town where she lives, if they set off a dozen suitcase nukes loaded with ebola or worse all over this country. Her son and millions of others would be dead. She says he didn't join for patriotic reasons, but for money and a chance of a job in the CIA or the FBI. Her son was a patriot, although she doesn't realize it. Perhaps in time she will. She should be proud of him.