Addressing a comment from Alan’s blog….
"Maybe when you young fellows grow up, you'll understand what it takes to fight and win a war. The problem with your generation…"
What it takes to win a war? It take my generation:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2006.02.html
Running the numbers for February, the average coalition fatality was 24 years old, just like me. And that’s six years older than the voting age as dictated by the 26th amendment, which guarantees our 18-year-olds who serve and die as soldiers the right to vote as active, constructive, questioning citizens.
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#26
Are you suggesting we’re too young to effectively fight our wars, as we always have?
Which generations shall we send? Yours? You?
I volunteered. Until I was dismissed for having poor eyesight I was an Army cadet at UNC.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c23/jderrick/jduniform.jpg
Hooaah.
What it takes to win a war? It take my generation:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2006.02.html
Running the numbers for February, the average coalition fatality was 24 years old, just like me. And that’s six years older than the voting age as dictated by the 26th amendment, which guarantees our 18-year-olds who serve and die as soldiers the right to vote as active, constructive, questioning citizens.
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#26
Are you suggesting we’re too young to effectively fight our wars, as we always have?
Which generations shall we send? Yours? You?
I volunteered. Until I was dismissed for having poor eyesight I was an Army cadet at UNC.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c23/jderrick/jduniform.jpg
Hooaah.
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