Evil rat bastard vulture recruiters (a short rant)

[skygazer]

And this is what I get for reading a People magazine! There's an article in there about those who have died in Iraq - they list the names of all the people who've died this year. Looking at the list, I was just appalled at their ages - 19, 20, 21, 22 - those are the ones I see over and over and over again. I sat there and cried (though I know according to the RW assholes, I belong to the party that doesn't care about these people because I don't have a "support the troops" yellow ribbon on my car).

Then I see a little box about one of these guys, 23 years old, who died in Fallujah the same day his baby was born here. He joined the Marines, get this, because his grandfather was a WWII Marine, and at the old guy's FUNERAL, a friend of the family who was a recruiter, asked him if he wanted to join up.

At the fucking FUNERAL!!!! Oh, one down, but here's another one, fresh out of high school! We'll take him.

Goddamn it, fucking vultures!

[liberalhistorian]

1. The vultures ain't getting

my son in a few years, that's for sure.

[skygazer]

2. My son is 17 and lives with his father

3000 miles away. I worry about him constantly. I worry about a draft and I worry about the economic situation being such that he chooses to enlist to pay for college or something. I worry about the recruiters getting to him. I have very little contact with him so it's hard for me to influence his decisions - hell, I don't even know of his decisions until it's 6 months later. :grr: