Last Straw

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1. nancy,

   21 May, 2008 at 12:29 am

   Thank you for post­ing this. I am old enough to remem­ber the draft and Viet­nam, so I dis­cour­aged any­one I could, includ­ing my son, from buy­ing the myth, so pre­val­ent not that long ago, that the volun­teer army was a way to go to col­lege and have a job without ever hav­ing to fight. I truly hope that young people now know what join­ing the mil­it­ary means. That said, it is dif­fi­cult for any­one to con­tem­plate break­ing an oath, facing pro­sec­u­tion, and turn­ing one’s life upside down, and I deeply admire Mat­tis Chiroux for his stand.

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