To: mhking
You know there is one thing that this article fails to mention. Just because some one is not an infantryman does not mean that they are not in any less danger of getting killed. There is no such thing as a non-combatant in a combat zone. Iraq is a combat zone, every soldier and Marine are trained in basic military tatics.
Putting a quota on the number of black or hispanic dead is lunacy. Those brave souls died as heros doing something that they volunteered to do.
So what if they joined the service to escape crime ravaged or socioeconomic depressed neighborhoods. It is better to be a person in the service than a thug on the street.
82 posted on
04/12/2003 10:33:49 AM PDT by
Warrior Nurse
(The Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps team putting warheads on their foreheads! OOH-RAH)
To: Warrior Nurse
I had a similar thought - how many blacks and Hispanics were killed in NYC in a 3-week period of time related to drive-bys, overdoses, etc., etc.
One could theorize it's safer to be black in Iraq than in NYC.
83 posted on
04/12/2003 10:50:20 AM PDT by
Spyder
(Just another day in Paradise)
To: Warrior Nurse
The only think Segal and his kind are interested in is discouraging Blacks from enlisting in "The White Man's Military". If you happened to catch the September 21, 2001 broadcast of BET Tonight, there was a round-table discussion of the possibility of an impending war, and loss of more Blacks in battle-just like-you guessed it-Viet Nam. It seems the conventional wisdom of the Black Left is that those who have honorably served, or those who desire to serve their country are nothing more than cannon fodder for George W. Bush or any other Republican president, with LBJ being the only Democratic exception.
-Regards, T.
106 posted on
04/12/2003 5:36:20 PM PDT by
T Lady
(.Freed From the Dimocratic Shackles since 1992)
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