She attends a VERY liberal arts magnet high school, and all her friends and teachers had very high hopes for her in college, then opera. When she told me she felt called to go into the Air Force, I was very proud, but the rest of her "crowd" has been, for the most part, predictably "devastated". Other parents have berated me for "allowing" my daughter to "waste her life" for an "immoral cause".
My daughter has one of her best buddies in the Marines right now, (a sweet boy named Valentine, please pray for him) crossing into Iraq now as we speak, and she can hardly wait to go herself. She is, as a good freeper gal should be, irritated at all the mindless peacenikism surrounding her. So she made a t-shirt saying:
Anti-war
Pro-Saddam
Pro-rape
and she wore it to school. Talk about taking fire...