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Originally posted by irateplatypus
so few people express compassion for reservists on the grounds that if they didn't want to go to war... then they shouldn't have joined. i would agree if they were complaining about going to war at all, but that isn't the case. the complaint often lies with the government changing their commmitment requirements in the middle of their service contracts and/or unfairly presenting the criteria for their deployment.
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This surprised me about the responses as well. I think people tend to forget that these are all 18-20 year old kids, signing probably the first contracts of their lives. Ask 4 out of 5 of them if their recruiter lied or misrepresented facts to get them to join, they'll say yeah. And please don't say Caveat Emptor to me, say it to the 18 year old in an afghani foxhole.
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