Friday, October 14, 2011
The Truth About Who Fights for Us - WSJ.com
This is surprising to me.
I must admit that my perception of this was quite different...
I must admit that my perception of this was quite different...
Ann Marlowe includes this fact among others in her Wall Street Journal article:
"And yet the mythology refuses to die. Just last week, two well-educated and well-known writer acquaintances of mine remarked in passing on the 'fact' that those who serve in the U.S. military typically have no other career options. America's soldiers, they said, were poor and black.
They don't mean this to denigrate their service—no, they mean it as a critique of American society, which turns its unemployed into cannon fodder. Especially today with high unemployment, the charge goes, hapless youths we fail to educate are embarking on a one-way trip to Afghanistan.
These allegations—most frequently leveled at the Army, the military's biggest service and the one with the highest casualty rate—are false."
