Reply #65: CO, jail or leave the country.

[LeftyMom]

I will not kill except in self defense. I won't take a desk job and help the war machine in some other way. I just can not do it.

For that matter, I am entirely unwilling to leave my child for months or years. He's too young to understand. Besides, what if something happened to me? I was raised by a single parent and I'm entirely unwilling to put LK and LD through that without a damned good reason.

I'd go to jail before I'd go to war. That's easier to say as a woman, since women's prisons tend to be better than those for men, but I would. At least then my chances of going home to my son would be good and in the meantime maybe I could help out in the library or the education program and counteract some of the bad in the world.