i need recruitment resistance help

[yorgatron]

someone i know on another message board (for hot rods if you must know) is worried about his only son joining the army,and needs help talking him out of joining up.if anyone has links to good articles on the reasons why,please postthem here so i can forward them to his dad.i'm going to go and have a look around LBN and see what i can find.i've used this tactic before,and it works!

[noamnety]

1. (the usual question)

Who'd they vote for?

[sarcasmo]

2. Show him the guys coming back with missing limbs.

Take him to a VA Hospital if all that doesn't work he is already brain washed. If the dad voted for Chimpy let him sign up.

[cheezus]

3. if he WANTS to go, good!

there's plenty of guys over there who have been overextended and need to be relieved

[Semi_subversive]

4. Iraq Coalition Casulties

www.icasualties.org

[MADem]

5. Gulf War Illness, vaccinations....

...stop-loss, the lists of the dead.

All you have to do is have a lookielookie at the faces of those who have died in this foolish war, children, most of them, and realize that it is a fool's errand...and those poor kids weren't fools, they were patriots, used, abused, MISUSED by this insane group of chickenhawks.

[IrateCitizen]

6. CCCO has some excellent resources to this end...

Check out the following webpage, along with links:
http://www.objector.org/before-you-enlist.html

[jonnyblitz]

11. great resource!

**bookmarked**

[diamond14]

7. link to: "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq", the bush* DISPOSABLE HEROES

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/purplehearts_intro.html




burned



brain damaged and blind



quad



brain-damaged



double-amputee, burned in face

[Frangible]

8. I hate to say it

But it's the son's decision. I'm sure the risk of injury and death has occurred to him. I would show him F9/11 to get another perspective, but if he's already considered that perspective... well, a person's gotta make their own decisions, I guess.

[yorgatron]

9. yes it IS the son's decision,but it should be

an INFORMED decision.

[diamond14]

10. the injured are coming back to their PARENTS HOMES for care

so that does become the responsibility of the PARENT, although, there are a few in the photos living in a car, or a trailer....

the Parents must begin to ask those hard questions: do they want to spend their retirement years caring for a BRAIN-DAMAGED, BLIND AMPUTEE...their own child? or would they rather their child STAY HOME, and at some point, be a resource to them in their senior years?