Reply #19: That's a little unfair and callous.

[tjwash]

Most of them are kids that have nothing to begin with, and the military is the only get out of their current situations.

If you're from a small town, and your family owned business has been bankrupted because Walmart moved in, sometimes you are going to lacking little things like money for college. Or maybe the steel factory, that was the towns main employer just got a sweet deal from China and left in the middle of the night, and there is no way for you to make a living without leaving. What do you do if you are a young 20 something that doesn't have any means to do that? I'm open to suggestions. :shrug:

And you are dead wrong in you initial assertion as well, there are a hell of a lot of Dems in the military, and a hell of a lot more veterans here than at freeperland.