Army general issues appeal to keep military ranks filled (AJC) [View All]

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Here's a little something to show all your wingnut "friends" in the 101st Fighting Keyboardists who are happiest when people they don't know are fighting in wars they rabidly support.

Army general issues appeal to keep military ranks filled

By Ron Martz
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/04/06

Americans need to get serious about the war against international terrorism and start encouraging more young men and women to join the military, a top Army general said Friday.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, commander of the First Army based at Fort Gillem in Forest Park, said in a speech at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Decatur that many people in the United States tend to let the events of their everyday lives overshadow the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We need to remind people we are at war," Honoré said. (SNIP)

But because of the nature of the enemy, he added, it is important for Americans to understand what is at stake for the nation and to make concerted efforts to keep the ranks filled.

"We can't have a part of America say, 'Yes, but not my son or daughter.'"

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2006/11/04/methonore1104a.html

If the name General Honoré rings a bell, it may be because he's the Army officer dispatched to New Orleans after Katrina:

A man of a thousand one-liners, Honoré has told soldiers to keep their guns down: "This isn't Iraq." Aides-de-camp says he knows how to cut through the thickets of famously murky Louisiana politics. At a recent staff meeting here at Camp Shelby, he growled, "We're not stuck on stupid." It became the saying of the day, written on a bulletin board.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0909/p01s01-usmi.html?s=t5