Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
Robert, that is a term soldiers I know, who are very proud of the country they serve, have used to describe their conditions and motivations.
While you seem to take offense at the term, others don't. They made rational financial decisions to join in order to pay for college, and rational financial decisions to reenlist.
It's naive to believe that everyone fighting in the US military is their for patriotic reasons. Any reasonable person knows that people join for many other reasons as well, such as to avoid jail time or for financial benefits.
I'm not dismissing patriotism, but simply pointing out that there are other motivators at play here that make it hard for me to get choked up over seeing mass reenlistments.
Oct 12, 2008, 11:26:00 PM
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