Didn't send your kid to war? Maybe you can send $$
Source: AP
July 4, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Didn't send your kid to war? Maybe you can send $$
By Pauline Jelinek
The Associated Press
Washington — If you have military-age children who have not served in this decade's wars, then you owe a debt — meaning money — to those who did. That's the premise of a new fundraising effort by three wealthy American families who want to help U.S. veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Every non-military family should give something, they said. The affluent should give large sums. No one should think of it as charity, but rather a moral obligation, an alternative way to serve, perhaps the price of being spared the anxiety that comes with having a loved one in a war zone.
"We have three able-bodied, wonderful, wonderful children, all of whom are devoted to doing very, very good things around social justice; and we could not be more proud of them," said Philip Green, a local businessman who devised the fundraising idea. "We're also delighted that none of them had to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan."
Green says he and his wife came to look at that as unfair: "I realized that there were parents just like me down the street, down the block ... who did not have that luxury" and were suffering sleepless nights and anxiety, "which I was able to avoid."
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Wake the fuck up, man...This entire scheme is just a money laundering scam/campaign slush fund/tax dodge for the one-percenters wrapped up in faux patriotism...
I was amused at how much they strained themselves pretending they "care" so much in the story...
sign up or pay someone $100 or $200 to take your place.
Oh how democratic! 
