Reply #16: Maybe you could sit down and ask him (you probably already have) . . . [View All]

[frankly_fedup2]

why he feels so strong about going into the military? I wouldn't bring up his father or his fathers' opinions. He will think you are blaming his father for his decision. Keep dad and his warped beliefs out of the whole conversation.

the horrors of the war over there . . . for our military as well as for the Iraqi innocents.

One thing I have always thought I would ask my son if he ever came to me and said he wanted to join the military now, was I would ask him . . . could you actually kill another human being? It's easy to say yes and be all macho, but when it got down to it, could they do it? Cause if you have a millisecond of a second thought about it, you will be the one that is dead. Also, is this a just war? If it were a war were the only hope for the people were the American Military moving in and helping the people, are we protecting the U.S. from invasion? There can be just wars, I suppose, however, this is a slaughter of people because we came on their soil to steal their oil, and the terrorists have moved in to kill our troops.

I laugh when I hear Bush, Rumsfield (he's a real piece of work, huh?), or any other member of the Bush Administration say that because of Bush, and his leadership, we have had no other attacks. I feel like writing them going, "Well, DUH! They have almost 150,000 Americans close to home, they can pick off one, two, three a day. They don't care how they do it, how many, but just as long as they are killing Americans. Our troops over there are nothing but target practice for these terrorists. Unfortunately, the Iraqi people are stuck in the middle and have been slaughtered. Even the terrorists, who are fellow Muslims, are killing their own people. I thought the Koran said they would go to Hell for that. Obviously, they have a different kind of Koran, just like Bush and his Administration a reading a different Bible than I have.

It's like one of the stories posted today pretty much said it all. There is a new name for "bigotry" . . . it's called "Values."

Thank the Good Lord my son has never wanted to go into the military. He is 26, married, and has an 18-month-old baby boy. Now I worry about my grandson and what future will be there for him.