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Originally posted by Munchkin03
I never thought about it like that, but you're on to something. I think that most of today's young servicemen enlisted before 9/11, so they and their families had no idea that war was even a possibility. It's weird--one of our family friends lost her son in Iraq, and now she's on a mission (I kid you not) to get him canonized (!), and lo and behold, there is a group of mothers out there trying to do the same thing. My hometown is in a military area, so it's not as if these are a bunch of wacky liberals.
I asked my parents if they knew anyone who reacted like this when they lost someone in Vietnam, and it just seemed like everyone was more prepared for what could happen.
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I've actually talked to my parents about this last night, and they seemed to confirm that. My dad said that when he talked to the guys in his unit when they came back to the U.S., he heard similar stories of families selling/giving away their children's possessions. There was just a large assumption that their kids weren't coming home.
Docetboy, thanks for the article. I hadn't heard anything about her first meeting with the President, only that it had taken place about a year ago.