I’m back in night school, and in my Communications class one of the young baby faced students stated he was missing the next class to travel to Missouri to be reactivated. He signed up for the Marines on a 4+4 enlistment, and still has 2 years eligble reserve left. He’s being reactivated as a Sergeant, and boy did I feel old, he looked like a high school kid. If these two yellow scumbuckets chose to go awol in time of war- no sympathy here. If they couldn’t in good conscience obey their orders, then stand up and take your lumps, defend your position. Or do your duty somehow .. Desmond Moss showed how a peaceful man can serve his country in time of war.( oops I forgot schools now probably don’t even mention him when they talk abut pacifists and war).
I’ve never been in the military, and I doubt that I would be well-suited to it. I’m also not too sure that I would care to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, personally. Having said that, if I had joined the military, I’d be damned if I’d run away and hide in another country to avoid what I was being ordered to do, even if I didn’t agree with it. These guys are worse than cowards - they’re weasels. I wouldn’t trust a word that comes out of the mouth of a man who voluntarily joins the military and then refuses to do his duty.