OrangeMoon,
Not only are the older vets having difficulties as a result of past wars, my line sister's cousin was approximately 23. He was sent home last year from fighting over in Iraq with some kind of rare kind of cancer that only a handful of vets have been sent home for from Iraq. He has already passed away. So do not think that those ailments are from days long ago. War is still war and people are being sent home from having contracted all sorts of ailments, even as recent as the Iraq war. It is so sad to think that this young man of 23 has lost his life. One thing is true, however. My grandmother (a vet) mentioned that when you sign up, you have signed up and there is no such thing as you don't want to serve your duty. You have to fulfill the obligation to adhere to Uncle Sam's decisions so I think that young people should really think about this when they sign up to be in the military during times of *peace* or war - if a war jumps off, you have to go. There is no second thoughts b/c you didn't anticipate war at the time that you signed up. People have to think further into the future.
SC
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Originally posted by OrangeMoon
I see what Vietnam has done to my Dad. Every person that mentions going to the Army, Navy, National Guard or Marines I take them to my dad and show them the results of war. This may be a different type of war but WAR is WAR no matter what decade. We fight wars everyday at home in our own neighborhoods in a country that gives less than a darn about us.
I see men from Vietnam and Gulf War at VA hospital applying to get benefits for fighting a WAR just to live. The government denies them benefits but these men did not deny the United States when they shipped them off. Better yet lets talk about the health problems: Agent Orange, Gulf War syndrome, the skin rashes, the breathing problems, death and countless other disease that they cannot pinpoint that result from WAR.
They (the government) uses money, education and promised benefits to get US in but when it comes time to GET what WE were promised it's not available or they give you BS about how you don't meet the criteria. Bump the government.
#1 is correct
#2 is B.S. 
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