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Originally Posted by estranged4life
my older brother was an Army recruiter in the mid 80's, and he now regrets it. He was told to lie to 'possible recruits' to meet his 'monthly quota'.
Ask most new recruits who lives only 40 miles from me in the city of Lawton (Home of Ft.Sill/US Army military base) what they think of the Army, I'm sure you'll hear "F.T.A." mentioned.
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I believe your brother. Sometimes we all gotta do things...make that deal with the dark side.
My father was in WWII. He was drafted at the age of 24. He was a sharpshooter. He saw combat in both France and Germany. It's very hard for me to type this next sentence. I'm pretty sure that he killed people. He NEVER spoke of his war experiences. Just wouldn't talk about it. He was a Virgo (Amber, you out there?). What I mean is, he was a very sweet, easy going, life of the party kind of guy. But many was the night he would sit at our kitchen table, silently smoking Pall Mall unfiltered's and drinking Narragansett beer as if possesed by some demon that none of us could see or know about. And that's what killed him at the age of 55,under the guise of lung cancer and cirrhosis.
So that is part of my hatred of our governement's stupid war machine.
I think it's time for me to go vote.