Did anyone watch PBS' NOW? titled AWOL -now streaming online

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/334/index.html

[ThomWV]

1. What, specifically, is the subject? AWOLs in general or Bush's AWOL?

[w8liftinglady]

2. from the web page

Choosing to go to war is both a government's decision and one made by individual enlistees. But changing your mind once you're in the army is a risky decision with serious consequences. This week, we talk to two soldiers who went AWOL and eventually left the Army, but who took very different paths. NOW shows one man turning himself in and captures the moment another applies for refugee status in Canada, becoming one of the more than 20,000 service members who have deserted the Army since the war in Iraq began. Each describes what drove him to follow his conscience over his call to duty, and what penalties and criticism were endured as a result.

"I see things differently having lived through the experience," former army medic Agustin Aguayo tells NOW. "When I returned from Iraq, after much reflection I knew deep within me I could never go back."

[PinkTiger]

3. I thought you couldn't take refuge in Canada anymore.

At least that is what I heard.

[w8liftinglady]

4. I still am kind of surpirised that there have been 20,000 deserters in this war

I know there were a million in Viet Nam,and I bet our desertion rate would skyrocket if a draft was imposed.

[w8liftinglady]

5. you need to check out their archives-they have some great topics

http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/archive.html

[dipsydoodle]

6. 20.000 deserters.

That to me is a high number. 'bout time Presidant Gump sat up and took notice.

[w8liftinglady]

7. for an all-volunteer Army,it is

I would best most of those deserters were on their second or third deployments