Posted on 07/15/2007 3:36:47 PM PDT by infoguy
Now that I’m 42 I wish I had joined the military when I was 18 and I’m far wiser than I was when I was 18.
I don’t see that dear uncle has much say in this man’s life.
I joined at 18...now 43...someday I’ll get a job....
I know what you mean ...
I see guys that are my age and are retiring from the military. While they aren’t retiring rich, they are retiring with a check coming in and time to decide what to do with the rest of their lives.
Same here - my biggest regret in life at the age of 50 is that I didn’t serve in the military.
Ah yes, the ill informed repporting of opinions wrongly formed on falseitudes, put forward as the gospel by the urinalists of the LA Slimes.
Yes I am holding back so I don’t get banned.
Our son is in delayed entry program. He goes to Chicago on Nov 4th.
He knows exactly what he is doing and it is a hell of alot more than giving up his job at $18 an hour and leaving a girlfriend behind hoping that she will feel the same when he gets out of bootcamp (Husband and I are secretely hoping she won’t).
This kid is no fool.
Military: Joining LA Times not “informed choice” but “professional suicide.”
Being a liberal columnist for the LASlimes, is a stupid choice also.
Writers-—get used to it—just because someone made a decision YOU may not agree with does NOT mean they have been manipulated or brain washed. God gave everyone free will.
I did sign up for the draft when I was 18. My grandfather was a WWII vet who was proud to take me to do even that little bit.
I don't know why, but I'm completely appalled that this wonderful sentiment from what appears to be a fine young man became fodder for his uncle's column. If I were his nephew, I'd have a hard time speaking to my uncle ever again. But I'm Sicilian so...
Lopez is a cr*p reporter for a cr*p newspaper who, based on his columns, got a cr*p education, and now has cr*p for brains. He has had garbage poured into his head for years. Now he has garbage coming out in his columns.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
> And as for soldiers as young as my nephew, I don’t see enlistment as a well-informed choice but as a product of manipulation.
So speaks a War Wimp. He’ll need to hide behind his nephew, who clearly understands what needs to be done and why.
Believing anything you read in the LA times is not “a well-informed choice but a product of manipulation.”
I'm not defending the LA Times, but someone should tell this kid that joining the military does not automatically make him better than everyone else, and he should not look down on the rest of us who made different career choices as dishonorable undisciplined cowards.
I think Mr. Lopez’s newphew heard this speech, it’s about his uncle....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865920/posts
42 years,2 weeks and 2 days ago I met Ssgt Browne, and Sgt Bowser my two senior D.I.s at USMC Recruit Depot San Diego. It was a “life” changing experience that made me a better man for it. HOORAH MARINES, GET SOME.
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