Seventeen-year-old high school journalist and honor student David McSwane . . . " wanted to see how far the army would go during a war to get one more soldier" . . . so he showed up at a Golden Colorado recruiting office saying he was a dropout. No problem, the recruiter said — and told McSwane in a phone call he recorded — to create a fake diploma from a non-existent school. "I was shocked. I'm sitting there looking at a poster that says 'Integrity, Honor, Respect,' and he is telling me to lie," McSwane said. Read the whole article
This is pertinent. The Army keeps phoning my home, asking to talk to my daughters. They got their names and phone numbers from their schools. I tell them to piss off, stop calling and hang up. I believe my kids are bright enough to know what's a lie when a recruiter tells them one, but these are supposed to be the best of the best of the Good Guys. We're supposed to be able to trust these guys and even though of course I know they lie, it's still shocks and shames me to find how badly they'll lie. Chickenshit cowards, sitting safely at desks out of harm's way, lying to get my kids to enlist so they can send them to war to protect what was supposed to be a democracy.
We all laughed when my dad suggested the girls ask if they take lesbians, but now it isn't so funny. This is a situation where I thank heaven my son is autistic and has seizures. If they bring back the draft, they won't take an autistic epileptic, will they?
