Posted on 10/07/2004 4:12:26 AM PDT by newsgatherer
For over two years now, American service members (all volunteers) have been fighting in combat in the war against terrorism in far away lands.
I was also "over there," serving with the US Army in Afghanistan.
So why do they do it? Why do people voluntarily choose to risk their necks for up to a year at a time, instead of sleeping safely in their beds as civilians?
After many, many conservations with the "grunts on the ground," I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight:
1. No one is fighting so that a mother can abort her child up to the day before delivery for any reason.
2. No one is eating MREs for 6 months straight so that they can pay higher taxes.
3. No one is risking their life on a daily basis so that "Daddy and His Boyfriend" can be taught to our children in public school.
4. No one is dodging mortar rounds so that trial lawyers can...
(Excerpt) Read more at Christian-news-in-maine.com ...
Thanks for the ping - is it too much to ask to add some more of the article in the thread...
(Bad, bad dial up and all that.)
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