The Making of Soldiers

From The Monkey Cage:

When I went into US Navy Boot camp on the bus ride there I met up with a couple of guys I thought were pretty cool - and I remember thinking - "Cool - I've found two friends already" One had long brown hair and the other had reddish hair. We chatted the whole way to boot camp, but I never did find out their names. The next thing I know we were IN boot camp and there was no more chatting - soon after we were in the barber's chairs and got our heads shaved. I never DID find those 2 guys again - because the Navy transformed us - we all became alike, looked alike, sounded alike, thought alike, there were no long haired guys, there were no guys dressed in rags or guys dressed up nicely anymore, no guys with T-shirts of bands I also liked - we all became US Military guys - I gave up trying to figure out who those two guys were - and it hit home to me - the kids that went INTO Boot Camp ALL disappeared, including myself.

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[Anonymous]

AMERICA SHOULD GET THEIR SOLDIERS OUT OF IRAQ, NOT TRAIN MORE.