~the Recruiter Called Today~ Comments

This is very heart rendering Mary, but I know just how you feel. Why do we have to sort out every countries troubles, they never appreciate it when we do. Lovely read. Love Ernestine XXX

Sounds like a chilling experience. I didn't know that they actively recruited girls too. You are entirely in your rights, both a mother and a human being, not to want to send someone to war according to my thinking. It sounds cheap that they try to 'buy' the kids with education. One day maybe we will finally live in a world without war but from what goes on in this forum I doubt that will be anytime soon. Never question the value of protecting a life though, and really by not going to war it protects not only the person's not sent, but also any who might be injured. Every soul counts to god.

This reminds me of the things I write in the sense that it's not really a poem at all. It's just prose laid out in stanzas with cropped lines. But that's okay. I never knew the military was doing telemarketing now. Jeez, they must be desperate. 'Little chance of going to war' - yeah, right. They''ve lowered recruiting standards in order to get more enlistees to fill the rotation slots in Iraq. I have enormous respect for our soldiers even as I've opposed their deployment in Iraq from the start. What really makes me mad is how poorly paid they are and how well paid all the military contractors are who never have to put their lives on the line. There should be a rule that if you want to make big bucks providing goods and services to the military, then you have to do your time on the front lines. Otherwise you'll have to accept the same compensation the soldiers do.

Mary, this is beautiful. You are not showing any disrespect for America's soldiers. You are showing them a world of respect. Recruiters are like wolves in their tactics. The government is responsible for cutting the college funding, thus making the military the only viable option for continued education for most Americans. This is sad...and you are a mother that knows that such a decision, when all of the facts are not presented, is not a decision to be taken lightly.

MARY...YOU ARE QUITE THE STAND-UP GAL...AND I APPLAUD YOU& YOU DO NOT OWE A SINGLE PERSON ON THIS PLANET AN EXPANATION FOR YOUR FEELINGS FOR SOMEONE YOU'D LIKELY GIVE YOUR OWN LIFE FOR, IN OR OUT OF WAR....A VERY MOVING PIECE...AND WORDS THAT PERHAPS IF THE MEDIA ALLOTED MORE AIR TIME TO(A SoldiersParents point ofview) , .THAT MIGHT CREATE MORE(CIVILIZED) PRESSURE TO MODIFY THE CURRENT STRADEGIES.NICE JOB, AS ALWAYS, MARY''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''FRANK