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Going in for financial reasons...yes. We had a lot of years of peace time.
For a lot of us, we had families to support, wanted to go to college and serving out country was an added benefit.
The problem is now we are in a time of war and many of the military today joined when we were at peace. Once in, you go where they tell you to go.
The other problem, which I thought was fabulous of Michael Moore to mention in his movie, is that we have to risk our lives for a college education. We have to risk our lives to support our families.
For the most part, the troops in the military don't join to get rich which is what your post implies. The economics in this country and how we are raised is what has put us in the position we are in. It's been like this for decades. Not likely to change anytime soon.
The other thing is name one war where no civilians were killed. You won't find one. Even when we fought wars when we had good reason to fight them, civilians were killed. It's a sad fact that is unavoidable.
Also, majority of troops aren't murderers. A few bad ones get in there which paints the entire military in a bad light. War brings out the worst in a lot of people and this illegal and immoral action proves it.
I'm a vet and in the past I have always supported the troops no matter what. It's hard to support them even now so the best I can do is to support my two relatives who are currently in Iraq.
There are a lot of good people in the military who still believe in serving their country even wondering what in the hell they are doing. I'm not going to denigrate and question their motives for serving or going over there. I think that's counter-productive.
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