{"id":1079,"date":"2001-10-18T20:08:42","date_gmt":"2001-10-19T01:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2001-10-18T20:08:42","modified_gmt":"2001-10-19T01:08:42","slug":"all_that_you_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/18\/all_that_you_ca.html","title":{"rendered":"All that you can be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Active Duty ‘Conscientious Objectors’ On The Rise<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Sh’yeah, right.<\/p>\n

Many of the enlisted personnel who are now seeking honorable discharges argue they didn’t sign up to defend America; they just wanted to learn a trade or earn money for college.
\nThose seeking discharges based on conscientious objections to the current war on terrorism and military action in Afghanistan insist that military advertising failed to present the reality of military conflict, focusing instead on money for college, job training, leadership and disciplinary aspects of the military.<\/p>\n

Yeah. And all those tanks, guns, jets, and grenades? Trendy fashion accessories!<\/p>\n

[…] “There’s very little in military advertising that talks about combat, that talks about killing, that talks about fear, loneliness and all of that stuff. It’s not there,” said Titus Peachey, a director of peace education for the Mennonite Central Committee U.S.<\/p>\n

Well, of course. And candy bar commercials don’t talk about getting fat. Doesn’t mean that folks should be let off the hook for the duh<\/i> factor.<\/p>\n

According to Peachey, potential recruits, many of whom are teenagers, “are at a very vulnerable age” when they meet with military recruiters that visit high school campuses.
\nHe added that the teens are lured into military life by the “sharp uniforms” worn by recruiters and the “very attractive packages” offered by the military. “It seems logical that a high school kid would think about the possibility of fighting in a war,” during a time of hostilities, he said. But in peacetime, war is “the farthest thing from their minds.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Let’s get things straight. Nobody joins the military because they want to sit in a muddy foxhole and be shot at. Because they want to see their buddies blown to bits. They join for the job, for the bennies, or, during times of conflict, to fight for their country. But nobody getting into the military, I suspect, really has any idea of what combat is like.<\/p>\n

Tough noogies. That’s what swearing an oath <\/i>means.<\/p>\n

Or let’s put it another way. Folks at 17 and 18 can get married, too (I think the 17ers usually need parental consent, but …). A “very vulnerable age,” though. Folks might be lured into marriage at that age by the “very attractive packages” offered by their prospective mates. When madly in love\/lust, the idea that it might not work out is “the farthest thing from their minds.”<\/p>\n

Does that mean that 17- or 18-year-olds should be able to simply walk out on their spouses, without ramification? Regardless of what they want? Regardless of whether bambinos are involved? <\/p>\n

Now, frankly, I think 17- and 18-year-olds are too young to join up. And I think they are too young to get married. And I think they are too young to make a lot of commitments. But we let them do quite a few of them do all sorts of commitments to which they have to live up. I really don’t think that they should be let off the hook any more than I would be. Assuming anyone would want my carcass in the military ….<\/p>\n

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