Posted on 07/08/2007 4:20:20 PM PDT by RDTF
"The whole article is “I, me, my...”
and wondered ... "Where's Mr Cooney?
I'm no shrink, but I know a few Marines that seemed determined to be the man that didn't exist in their lives because of whatever reason.
I wonder if years from now we learn through some 'study' that the feminist movement of the 60's and beyond produced children bound and determined to be normal, productive men and women of the greatest land on planet Earth. Essentially refuting Mom's thought processes and having the guts to actually do something to help bring Americanism back into America.
Perhaps that's the biggest fear of the anti-war crowd ... the returning warriors are not buying into their tripe and will not become a latter day VVAW, but will come home to build America back in the image they hold dear.
Personally, I would be extremely torn if my son joined the Marines right now and not for the reasons this woman writes about. It pains me that this war is being fought so politically correct and the Marines seem to be taking the brunt of that policy. At the same time I would be so very proud to have raised a child that had such a sense of duty, and be so selfless that he would fight for all of us. If my sons, who are teenagers, decide to join the military, I will be behind them 100% in spite of my misgivings about the way it is being fought.
He may have signed up to get as far as possible from his mother.
Boy, that evil draft sure is something, making our young men into cannon fodder for Bush’s war for oil...Oh, wait, there is no draft! That means her son volunteered...never mind!
She doesn’t have a clue about how he sees things.
Thanks for your service, love your tag
She should be unemployed Monday morning.
The women is a *sshole.
Thank God the son inherited none of the mother’s idiot gene.
My son just started his second tour in Iraq last week. He’s in Baghdad for a few weeks then will be back somewhere in Al-Anbar with a Marine MTT unit. As much as I worry about him being there, I am even more proud of his service.
And as a father, I worry even when he is back home in California. You never know if some drunk driving illegal will cross his path.
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