[qam1]

Mostly about the younger Gen-Y, But this article is could also be about many Gen-Xers

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[pissant]

Very few of the kids from the anti-war crowd are in the military. Thank goodness.

[Old Sarge]

"These kids today, they are on a mission. I think they're more like their grandparents than their parents. They remind me of soldiers who went in right after Pearl Harbor. They are very directed, very clear in their focus and what their obligation is to their country. We had peace and love and all of that. These kids have Sept. 11. It did something to them."

It seems that class and maturity skipped a generation.

[laweeks]

"Anti-war generation watches its children go to war"

I'm sick of my generation being called the "Anti-War" generation. The morons who entertained the news cameras way back then were few and far between, but they got all the publicity. Millions of my generation were clean cut, had jobs, got drafted, never took drugs, cut our hair, washed, went to church, and raised our children to be moral contributing members of our country. A few thousand scum-bags got all the press. I'm tired of it. My generation was NOT anti-war; we were very patriotic.

Like one of our local Clevealnd news dudes (Gib Shanley) used to say immediately after the anchors and anchorettes gushed and gooed over the "ten thousand" protester who might have shown up at some pot-smoking anti-war demo, "Yes, but over 170 million Americans DID NOT protest."

[Texas_Jarhead]

This caught my eye,

"Jeramy Ringwolski, 18, joined the Marines in his senior year in high school, wanting to serve his country and see the world. He says his parents were skeptical at first.

"They didn't know if I knew what I was getting myself into," he says. Now in basic training in Mississippi, Ringwolski says he is excited about the possibility of being shipped out to Iraq. "

Did the Corps open a MCRD in Mississippi and I missed it or what?

[Texas_Jarhead]

good post

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: These kids have Sept. 11. It did something to them."

And that is a healthy reaction. Why didn't their folks react the same way?

[GVnana]

Not the first time parents have something to learn from their children.

I'll never forget, just a few months after 9/11 FOX had a report on new recruits in the Army. There's this kid fresh out of high school, still in boot camp saying, "To my brothers in the Special Forces, I'm coming as fast as I can."

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[Larry Lucido]

"America was losing or had lost in Vietnam"

I beg to differ.

[phoenix0468]

"...We had peace and love and all of that. These kids have Sept. 11. It did something to them."

Yes, it's a little something we like to call their come upins. And they are getting it right now in that "Triangle of Death" where the combat casualty ratio of ours to theirs is something on the level of 100 to 1. Especially after we hammered their camel ridin' asses out of Falluhja. I got a lot of silly looks when I joined the guard from my friends, and that was back in '98. Needless to say, they weren't my friends for very much longer.

[Soul Seeker]

In Donovan's early years in the National Guard, in the 1960s, the classic generation gap was defined as fathers, many of whom had served in World War II, disgusted at the insolence of youth. Today, military recruiters say, the 18- and 19-year-olds who are signing up are much more trusting of the establishment, much more willing to be part of a team. The gap now, they say, tends to be the parents' lack of understanding of their children's more bellicose leanings.

Occasionally, someone will sneer or make a snide comment about how stupid the military is, he says. "Usually, that's from old people in their 40s and 50s," he says.

"We went in for something to do," he said. "These kids today, they are on a mission. I think they're more like their grandparents than their parents. They remind me of soldiers who went in right after Pearl Harbor. They are very directed, very clear in their focus and what their obligation is to their country. We had peace and love and all of that. These kids have Sept. 11. It did something to them."

9-11 swept everything but the essentials away. To my understanding the X and Y generations have been been told either that they stand for nothing or are inquisitive. Having your country attacked tends to provide focus for your life. It tends to answer those hard questions. I do not serve, but I will defend my friends here at home from those that would detract from their honorable mission. Seems to me that it is the Ted Kennedy's, John Kerry's, Michael Moore's, Howard Dean's and Jane Fonda's out of step with their country.

BTW, I do realize not everyone was a part of the anti-war scene. We have a President that was not. Those that went against that movement helped to set events in motion that led to a conservative revolution. My father served honorably in Vietnam. Had there been a medium to challenge the MSM it might have been different.

[Finalapproach29er]

America was losing or had lost in Vietnam, an unpopular war.
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Damn fool reporter doesn't understand it was about Communist Soviet Union,which we sapped out. By war's end, Russia was as stressed and wrung out as a raisin. They were begging Carter for a SALT II treaty.

We won Vietnam because we prevailed against the Soviets (and China is no longer commie).

[CBart95]

Thank you Meg.
God Bless America.