Racial divide evident in military

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/363523p-309512c.html


Last year, as U.S. casualties mounted in Iraq, only three residents in two neighborhoods of Manhattan's upper East Side - the city's richest area - joined the Army, Air Force or Navy.

Just a few blocks farther north, in a swath of East Harlem, 45 people enlisted.

At the same time, an astounding 113 joined in the Morrisania and Highbridge sections of the South Bronx.

Meanwhile, in two zip codes of Brooklyn's poverty-stricken East New York, 116 men and women joined the military.

And in the immigrant neighborhoods of Elmhurst and Corona in Queens, 73 signed up.

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Back on the upper East and West Sides, where our city's rich and powerful live, Iraq is still something they watch on television.
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race and class

there was an Army Gen. on Wash. Journal this a.m. who said it was mostly patriotic people enlisting. he was quite upbeat and said there was no longer any problem with enlistments now that they are accepting less educated people.