The recruiters were at my daughter's high school today....

[Indiana_Dem]

I was driving by my daughter's high school and outside on this nice sunny day were some recruiters with a huge group outside climbing on one of those rock climbing apparatuses that you see in funparks! Then there was a table with a bunch of literature and I saw some kids filling out papers at the table.

This is very scary.

[Redneck Socialist]

1. Yeah, the military is all fun and games

until you take a bullet in the head.

[toddzilla]

3. keep em home when they take the ASVAB test

If they still make kids take it. I stayed home and avoided the recruitment drive because i test very well.

[markus]

8. God, I remember that

I used to take radios apart and mess about with electronics. Not in a seriously, geeky way, but I could read a schematic.

I got a very high percetile on that part of the test and they would not leave me alone. This was in '75 and at the end of the draft. I think they were in a panic trying to figure out where they'd get their non-GI/infantry folks from.

[Mountainman]

2. We are going to need a lot of cannon fodder for the rest of Bush's wars

Recruiters promise them fun, travel and adventure then send them to war to die and we say, "well it was their decision, they should have known they could be killed."

[MsUnderstood]

4. I got some dumb e-mail

About the average soldier who "can't write well but can take apart a gun in 5 minutes". The whole e-mail was a emotional tug on the poor unedcuated soldier who gives all he has for his country and even included "The average soldier has a girl waiting back home. . ." blah blah blah.

I responded back with a link to a story about the soldier being court martialed for having PTSD and the person who sent this e-mail stereotyping our soldiers said "They knew they might have to go to war when they signed up.

So which is it? Is our soldier a human being with emotions and girl friends or a trained killer?

Now, I support our troops (angry at the leaders) but I think we need to be honest about how low income minorities decided to be all they can be and got sent to a desert in the middle east to die while our government cuts the benefits promised to them.

[Mountainman]

9. The average soldier has a girl waiting back home

That reminds me of the Dixie Chick's song about the soldier that met a girl on his way to war. I break up when I hear that song.

[MountainLaurel]

14. Travelin' Soldier

Two days past eighteen,
He was waitin' for the bus in his army greens.
Sat down in a booth, in a cafe there,
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair.
He's a little shy but she give him a smile,
So he said: "Would you mind sittin' down for a while?
"And talkin' to me. I'm feelin' a little low."
She said: "I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go."
So they went down and they sat on the pier,
He said: "I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care,
"I got no one to send a letter to.
"Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?"

I cried: "Never gonna hold the hand of another guy."
"Too young for him," they told her.
Waitin' for the love of the travellin' soldier.
"Our love will never end."
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter says,
My soldier's comin' home.

The letters came from an army camp,
In California, then Vietnam.
He told her of his heart, it might be love,
And all of the things he was so scared of.
He said: "When it's gettin' kinda rough over here,
"I think of that day, sittin' down at the pier.
"And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile.
"Don't worry, but I won't be able to write for a while."

I cried: "Never gonna hold the hand of another guy."
"Too young for him," they told her.
Waitin' for the love of the travellin' soldier.
"Our love will never end."
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter says,
My soldier's comin' home.

One Friday night at a football game,
The Lord's Prayer said, and the anthem sang,
A man said: "Folks would you bow your head,
"For the list of local Vietnam dead."
Cryin' all alone under the stands,
Was the piccolo player in the marching band.
And one name read and nobody really cared,
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair.

I cried: "Never gonna hold the hand of another guy."
"Too young for him," they told her.
Waitin' for the love of the travellin' soldier.
"Our love will never end."
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter says,
My soldier's comin' home.

[quinnox]

5. Oh my, must be tough these days

"Come and join the Army or National Guard and go to interesting places! Like an Iraqi war zone, and get money for college - if you don't get killed or maimed while there that is".

[Loonman]

6. Nothing new

All branches would come for a week in Spring at my HS.

These days they just have videos and activities.


Cripes, and I the only one who remembers that the more things change, the more they stay the same?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

7. Go back and show'em the pix of the kids the military kills. n/t

[Indiana_Dem]

10. I don't think I'd be well received then!!! lol

They might hang me up right then and there on the spot!!:scared:

[Alpha Wolf]

11. This is scary

What are they recruiting high school kids for? Geez...

[Indiana_Dem]

12. Welcome to DU Alpha Wolf!

:hi:

I want to say that this IS a normal thing the recruiters do. It just seems more....I don't know...relevent now that there is actually a full blown war occuring across the ocean and that it appears that there may be many more to come in the future. I just think of all the young ones who know no different and don't really know what they could be getting into. That's why they recruit them young, my Vietnam vet spouse says. 18 year-olds feel as if they are infallible and will take great risks such as this. When they get to actually see what they're dealing with, their infallible world view crumbles around them (at least many of them). My spouse said this happened to him. He enlisted in order to avoid a draft because he said the chances of going to Vietnam were less. He got to go there anyway! He thought he was going to serve his country but when he got there he couldn't believe all the commercialism around him and found out he was actually putting his life on the line for the big business corporations. He couldn't believe Coke was so available. You could get anything you wanted. Those things turned his world view around forever.

[Indiana_Dem]

13. This is great! I live across the field from the school and

right next to their boys baseball field. I can see the recruiters across the field by the basketball gym's doors.....while the baseball boys are warming up they have a speaker system that plays music while they're warming up. The song playing right now is "War" (what is it good for, absolutely nothing)!!!!!!!

I bet that was played on purpose by someone!!! lol