Reply #2: Slippery slope on the kid who enlists and wants to fight... [View All]

"After he had served a year as a machine-gunner in the Middle East, Latseen was featured in the Rural Alaska Community Action Program publication Village Voices in the spring of 2004. In the article he discussed what drove him to enlist.

"Most of it had to do with 9/11. I wanted to go to Afghanistan, but I never quite made it there," he said. "I just wanted to fight. I don't like it when people s--- in my back yard, I guess."

According to the article, Latseen Benson's first name is the Tlingit word for "strong." The young man, the father of a preschool-age son, described his plans for returning home, which included martial arts study and dirt-biking.

"What can I say about combat? It's a rush," he said. "Mostly those in the infantry units, we were just there, in the middle of everything."

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Wonder if he'll wake up and see what HE's done.

Gawd, it's okay to kill others but not for them to fight back, apparently.