Military Recruiting: Parents' tune changes when they hear 'sign here'

[chemenger]

Thursday, August 11, 2005

By Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents. It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt.

"I want you to know we support you," she gushed.

Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.

"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.

Jack Kelly is a Republican hack reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the north suburbs of Pittsburgh are Melissa Hart's (R-Santorum Lite) territory. The mother in this article is without a doubt, typical of so many Repukes. Disgusting doesn't even come close to describing her attitude. "We support you" but don't come here. Reminds me of Tom Delay's reason for not serving ... "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself.

[acmavm]

1. It isn't for our kind of people? Exactly what goes on between the ears

of that hypocritic bigoted witch?

But it's okay for the children of the poor to pay with their lives for them to say 'we support the pRedident and the war in Iraq'?

This article has me angry enough to wreck the whole day.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. "We have to enjoy our tax cut.

Let the peons catch bullets."

[libhill]

10. So this is news?

I mean, it's a typical greedy, self centered, hypocrite Repuke showing her true colors. Fuck them and fuck their war.

[bananas]

3. link

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05223/552161.stm

[wakeme2008]

4. Do you have a link nt

[GOPFighter]

5. Link?

This is the Republican's mantra: "Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people,..."

Yeah, the rich make war, the poor die. The poor vote for the rich. Dumb, so dumb!

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Typical. Rich man's war, poor man's fight.

[nookiemonster]

7. "Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she

I better leave it at this.

:grr:

[Brewman_Jax]

8. Let someone else's kid die

so we can wave the flag and go shopping. That's the neo-con hypocritical version of "supporting" the troops. :eyes:

[Ian David]

9. Just one more Yellow Elephant for the herd

[Name removed]

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[Supersedeas]

12. No, not for my son -- so, a draft wouldn't make for a popular war