Lilred's Rant Of The Week: The Military

[Allen]

I must say that the past two weeks have been eye opening for me. I am VERY PROUD to say that my son-in-law just signed up for the Army National Guard. He leaves for basic training on Sept 12, from there he will go straight to AIT (Advanced Individual Training).

Some of you may have seen my post that I will be a granddad sometime around the first week of March. Josh may not be out of AIT when his first child is born, but he and my daughter feel what he is doing the right thing. The eye opening part is that this will be hard enough on my daughter, but now we are being verbally assaulted by people about “why would let him do that” and “you know they will just send him to Iraq like all of the others”. My question is, If not him and the others willing to do this, then WHO will protect this nation?

A coworker of mine is from Russia. He has been in this country (legally by the way) for 12 years. After he learned English ( he will only speak English ) He tried to join Army because he was Russian special forces in Afghanistan, but they said he was too old. When I told him Josh had joined the Guard he had this big smile and said “Good, he is giving back to his country, I am proud of him!” He knows bad really is and that our country is headed that direction.

I am at a lose as to why people think they have all of the many freedoms and rights that we do in this country, but someone else should take care of them for us.

Allen