Very interesting LTTE from NYTimes ...

[kentuck]

More letter in the link
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/opinion/l05iraq.html?

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Bob Herbert's touching column about Specialist Fourth Class Hugo Luis Gonzalez, a maimed Iraqi war veteran, hit me especially hard ("Forget the War? Many Can't," Aug. 4).

I spent last weekend at a Silver Springs, Md., hotel near Walter Reed Army Medical Center. There, on Sunday morning, I helped a young wife wheel her legless husband into the elevator, then the dining room. He dandled a pretty 2-year-old on what remained of his lap. Another tiny beauty clutched the wheelchair, trying to help.

As we entered the dining room, we saw 10 or 12 cheery young men and women about to be seated. When the amputee rolled into view, he waved to the group. Only one of the group waved back. Another gave the vet a thumbs-up gesture. Strangely, all the others looked away or fumbled with napkins, newspapers and chairs.

Eavesdropping on them during the meal, I think that I discovered why so many of them seemed ill at ease. They were members of a conservative college student group, and the subject of their breakfast meeting was how to improve their campus recruitment activities.

Some World War II feistiness left in me wanted to ask, "If you're so ardent about the war, why don't you enlist?"

[annabanana]

1. "campus recruitment activities."

telling story there..

(I doubt I could have held my tongue)

[Wetzelbill]

3. oh it would have been tough not to lace into them

No doubt about that. :)

[Wetzelbill]

2. that is good, nice post nt

[jojo54]

4. Discussing improvements to their campus recruitment activities?

While a brave man who gave his freedom (in more ways than one) for this lie of a war sits nearby in a wheelchair???

How disgusting.

[rodeodance]

6. horrible as it for this vet to be in a W/C--I think of those with head

wounds who will never lead a normal life--those are ones these campuse recruiters should be exposed to.

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. The "campus recruitment" activities would seem to be

about growing their numbers in the CONservative group, not about recruiting for military service. The assholes are probably embarrassed that one their own went while they all stayed behind promoting the Wrong.

Solidarity without question.

edit on the Commie thing.

[rodeodance]

7. I requirment for campus recruitment should be that they served in Irag-

on the battlefield.

[yorkiemommie1]

8. another recruiting office opened in my city ( 135,000 pop.)

today. they're both on the same street and only a block apart, on the busiest intersection in this SoCal city. strangely, i never see lines of eager applicants at either location.


edited to add population.

[peacetalksforall]

9. Pardon me for blasting out... I'm still angered from listening to

Podhertz (NY Post) lying on Wash Journal. Said Clinton did nothing to prevent WTC 1 and the other things that happened during the 90's (in defense of the cabal), plus more slime.

Every time I hear about, think about, and look at a soldier coming home without all of his body or mind, I can only think of one thing... his fetus was saved so that he could lose a part of his body for Halliburton and right wing corporations who have arranged to take over the earth resources and line pathways for their profit and the greater glory of an unbalanced partisan alliance with Israel.

Then, to hear that the averted eyes were from campus recruiters.... Imagine, all those fetuses were saved to go to college and prop up the corporations while getting an education.

Now is that a great success for pro-lifers or what?

[ihaveaquestion]

10. recommended