Editor,
The biggest complaint of the anti-recruitment activists is that recruiters make promises they cannot keep. No one knows for sure what was said during oral communications, which is why we have written contracts for just about everything we do. They should be read before signing.
In the recruitment contract I saw, on the first page in bold capital letters right above the signature lines is a line that states that no oral promises made by recruiters are valid. Next to this big bold sentence, in the left margin, is a blank where the enlistee is required to initial. Check it out if you don't believe me. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it.
Yes, we hate war. Yes, people die. Maybe we are fighting for the wrong reasons. Regardless, our soldiers are there now, and the time will come when we will need to replace them, and we will continually need plenty of brave men and women to defend you if our homeland is ever attacked again. Whether we like it or not, we will always need to be ready for war, and this is what recruitment is about.
Undermining our military, especially in a time of war, is nothing less than sedition.
Larry Walsh
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