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[MissMillie]

I will have him contact you.

I just spoke w/ him and he told me that I'm meeting w/ the recruiter tomorrow night. I already had plans for tomorrow night so he offered to switch it to a different night. They need me to sign some sort of medical form. I told Tim that I'm not signing ANYTHING.

Tim has kerotaconus, a degenerative disease of the cornea, which would normally exclude him from military service. The recruiter is now telling him that he can get a waiver and still sign up. I'm trying to tell Tim that this would mean that when he does finally need a cornea transplant, the Marines will NOT pay for it.

I don't think he gets it. I don't understand how it is possible that he doesn't get it, but he doesn't.

My son is a bright, sensitive young man. I don't know why he wants to sign up to go kill people. Without a college degree there is little chance that he will do anything else. Why does he want to do this?