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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:31 PM Original message |
Curious....what do we as a country do when our men and |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. We don't do anything. They are "expected" to be on the street corners with |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. That was exactly what Vietnam vets did. Going to war is so stupid. |
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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I know, it just makes me so sad..... |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. The military just sends them back. A dozen times. nt |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. well that too. they don't care about diagnoses as long as they can still fight. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. They don't care a whit about the soldiers. They only care about serving |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Many of them will stay in--and be deployed again |
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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I'm so sad about them all..... |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 12:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. That's called the 'poverty draft' |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. Statistically speaking, the numbers aren't high enough to make much of a change in employment. |
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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Really??? well thank you for telling me that..... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Also, a lot of the expense of foreign deployment has to do with supplying them. |
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Ninten12 (61 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. This vet says... |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 10:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Troops are an instrument of shock and awe in all manners imagined and practiced. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
14. I can't wait for Middle East war reenactments to replace Civil War reenactments... |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
15. Great question |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. Create jobs. How's that for an idea? |
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