Say what?

[Gato_Solo]

I guess some folks still don't get it...

So USA Today — our nation's high school paper — ran a piece noting that dozens of cities with populations over 100,000 haven't lost a service member in the Iraq War.

Experts suggested that recruits probably come from less-populated areas with crummier economies, so their career choices are limited — unlike big cities, where jobs at strip clubs make military service unnecessary.

But, oddly enough, the cities with the most dead? New York City, Houston and San Antonio — which aren't rural at all. I bet they even have cool jobs there, like editing newspapers!

Aside from making no sense at all, the paper seems to be saying that people enlist because they have no choice, not because they are patriotic. The reason is one of desperation, never of conviction.

Takes all kinds, right?

 

[paul_valaru]

but only the urbanites count anyway.

(sarcasm)

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

(sarcasm)

Not as much as you might think.

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway

 

[paul_valaru]

I was being sarcastic about the death tolls, how no cities over 100,000....etc.

And yes the armed services reach out to the people who`s future options are limited to to their local.