Unbelievable! The US Army wants my daughter!

My daughter got a letter from the Department of the Army in Fort Knox. MY DAUGHTER, the exchange student from France! She is neither an US citizen nor a legal resident, just an exchange student for one year. And she isn't even 16! Isn't that freaking unbelievable?! Are they so desperate that they recruit now in other countries???

They offer her a scholarship for college up to $80,000 etc. She had a good laugh at that but I was totally shocked. It's already horribly sad that they send American kids to die for Bush's stupid wars. But asking for foreign people's kids, that's something!

I asked Julie's host-mom how they even got her name and address (she goes to the French school, not an American high-school), and she thinks it was because Julie participated in the P-SAT at her school. Now I can understand a bit how American parents feel when they get these calls from Army recruiters. How sad is that!

I am sorry for your daughter btw, wish her well.

No Child Left Behind, or NCLB. (BTW, your daughter is safe. It was a bureaucratic mix-up that she got a letter.)

NCLB dictates that every kid who doesn't specifically file a letter stating that they don't want the military to get their school and biographical information is fair game for military recruitment.

Your daughter, and anyone in her school, can file a form from this site and make it stop: http://www.militaryfreezone.org/opt_out

Also go to: http://www.projectyano.org/. These sites have great info on how to get the military types to stop bothering your daughter.

I keep the snail mail coming, I haven't stopped it. That way when a Rethug relative starts spouting off about the war I can pull out a US Marines sign-up and give it to them. Here, sign up your kids, if you feel so strongly about this. They tend to shut up fast.

Julie has a lot of schoolmates who live in the US but have a double nationality, French and American. And some are talking about moving back to France if there is a draft again. I really like your country but with the current situation, I'm glad that we will go back to Europe in a month. There may be people looking into an American citizenship through military service but they have to see if it's worth risking their life for it.

BTW, something totally different: Julie has more Kerry photos from the Villaraigosa event and I will try to post them here tomorrow.

you don't even have to be a legal immigrant. illegal immigrants are allowed into the military and many go to help themselves become legal and citizens.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/03/a1.nat.rec...


Rachel Rogers, a single mother of four in upstate New York, did not worry about the presence of National Guard recruiters at her son's high school until she learned that they taught students how to throw hand grenades, using baseballs as stand-ins. For the past month, she has been insisting that administrators limit recruiters' access to children.

Orlando Terrazas, a former truck driver in Southern California, said he was struck when his son told him that recruiters were promising students jobs as musicians. Terrazas has been trying since September to hang posters at his son's public school to counter the military's message.

A Department of Defense survey last November, the latest, shows that only 25 percent of parents would recommend military service to their children, down from 42 percent in August 2003. "Parents are the biggest hurdle we face," said one recruiter in Ohio.

But Col. David Slotwinksi, a former chief of staff for Army recruiting, said that the Army faces an uphill battle because many baby-boomer parents are inclined to view military service negatively, especially during a controversial war. "They don't realize that they have a role in helping make the all-volunteer force successful," said Slotwinksi, who retired in 2004. "If you don't, you're faced with the alternative, and the alternative is what they were opposed to the most, mandatory service."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3802207

They have called him three times. At the end of each call he says it sounds wonderful but do you know how old I am. BTW, they always say they are calling in response to a request he made!

She ought to write back, and say


"I appreciate your interest, but with all the baseless French basing your country has been doing as of late, It's highly unlikely I'd lift a finger to fight in an army whose commander in chief is an incompetent, reckless, brain-dead, bigoted monkey. Furthermore, you can kiss my DERRIERE!"

They came to her college, and of course she is a Music major (Voice), said she could be in one of the choruses. She told them not until a DEMOCRAT is President, no way was she going to be suckered in.

I do fear the draft though, all my kids are in their 20's, and their will be no way out, and this is sad especially since my husband gave 20 years to the Navy. How this corrupt administration has hurt our military in more ways than one. One of her best friends from High School joined the Air National guard in 2001 before 9/11 and she is on the streets of Iraq now, she said she just wanted to get an education.