Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!

[dutch508]

cynatnite (28,618 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028932654

Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!

He turned 18 a few months ago and will soon be graduating high school.

With tRump bringing the US to the brink, I will not allow recruiters in my home. They do have a habit of stalking high school students in our area.

The son and I have been talking about this a little. He does like the idea of the military since both me and his father are veterans. He does understand the costs of war, but with tRump playing with our military like they're toy soldiers, our talks will continue.

This is worse than when bush invaded Iraq. With Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea, I'm ****ing scared as shit right now. I didn't feel like this back then.

I can't control his decisions, but I hope he makes well-informed ones.

you ****ing shit. the family are 'veterans' but military service is bad because trump?

 

Star Member lpbk2713 (31,185 posts)
2. Trump treats all people like they were expendable I would hate to be committed to a multi-year enlistment right about now.

Star Member Ilsa (42,952 posts)
3. I'm going to make sure we opt out of Receiving mail from them. I may wait on getting him registered for the draft until Trump is out. My understanding is that you have a few years.

oh, for ****s face.... there isn't any draft you ****ing ****!

hack89 (36,062 posts)
16. You can't get federal college financial aid without registering. Nt

 

roamer65 (11,425 posts)
17. It's a $250k fine and prison time for not registering...and keeping the gov't posted of address changes until you are 26. The gov't doesn't prosecute because we are not in a major war. If we were, they no doubt would. I wouldn't be called up at my age and only way I would serve anyway is if US territory was under imminent threat...unless it's a solid red state.

 

Star Member wildeyed (10,581 posts)
8. I have younger teens.

After DT won, I told them clearly that they needed to stay really focused on school. They younger one is very math-y so I am pushing him toward programming. If he is going to be drafted, I want him writing code or decoding enemy messages. Maybe propaganda. He is vicious with the memes....

Are females required to register now? Embarrassed to say that I don't know. Logically, it SEEMS like they should be if the government is serious about fielding the best fighting force, but many in the military are such hidebound chauvinists, it might be that they are not.

My daughter talked to a military person at some sort of jobs fair and won a prize for doing more pull-ups than the recruiter too, but don't know if she got on an actual list.

let me remind you idiots who keeps pushing for the draft...

it's democrats.

Star Member Equinox Moon (3,733 posts)
13. Have you been in touch with Veterans for Peace?

www.veteransforpeace.org

It might be helpful for all of you, parents and son.

 

DK504 (1,824 posts)
18. If they reinstate the draft, the country will go up in flames.

Just found out my older brother was going to be shipped off to Canada if the Vietnam war continued or his number came up. Still makes me sick thinking my oldest brother might have been shipped off to Vietnam.....

Now we've been in Afghanistan of over 15 years and we will never leave. Another 14 in Iraq and he's talking about Syria? Who the **** is he going to side with? Russia or The Rebels.

Star Member sarcasmo (16,009 posts)
21. "Military Men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy" Henry Kissinger



This quote might help your son make the right choice.

yeah- he never said that, btw.

Military men are "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Kissinger has denied saying it.

The only evidence that Kissinger ever said this was a claim in the book, The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in chapter 14 (p.194 in the 1995 paperback edition). Woodward & Bernstein claimed that one of Kissinger's political foes, Alexander Haig, had told someone unnamed, that he (Haig) had heard Kissinger say it. That's triple hearsay, made even weaker by the fact that one of the parties is anonymous. Kissinger has denied ever saying it, and it was never substantiated by Haig, nor by anyone of known identity who claimed to have heard it. As Kirkus Reviews noted about the whole book, "none of it is substantiated in any assessable way."

In fact, the quote is not even very plausible, on its face. Kissinger served with distinction in the U.S. Army during WWII, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He has always been very respectful of other servicemen and their sacrifices. For him to have said such a thing would have been wildly out of character. In fact, the awkward phrasing doesn't even sound like Kissinger, whose English prose is consistently measured and careful, despite his heavy accent, even when he speaks extemporaneously.

but DUmpmonkiez love them some fake news... so, eh... 

MarianJack (9,050 posts)
25. My son just turned 17 two weeks ago, and...he's a handsome, bright young man whom many see as having a great resemblance to a young Denzel Washington. He is the only child my wife and I will ever have. He is working part time at the local KFC and is in 10th grade. He isn't likely to go to college immediately after High School (if ever) and he is most certainly NOT a perfect human being. However, he IS a wonderful boy and my wife and I are very proud of the man he's growing into.

My son will NOT die in a war that was fabricated by a treasonous illegitimate and corrupt so called "president" whose first loyalty is to a Russian despot to whom he owes his ass many times over.

I will throw his muscular brown ass into the car and DRIVE his ass to Canada if the reigning Grand Wizard were to reinstate the draft to provide Vladimir Putin with the cannon fodder he desires in their mission to destabilize our country.

**** THEM ALL!

Let the deplorables and teabaggers sacrifice their sons and daughters on the alter of the Putin/Trump/Pence junta, but not my son. Not now and not EVER!

PEACE!

 

[jukin]

All I have to say is that I would have lost money on this bet!!!


I was buying Mid-May tickets for the first "TRUMP GONNA KILLAAAArrrs MYSSS SONS!!!1111!!!ELEBINTY"

Now, YOU ****S, I have to pay of on $100 bet to my schadenboner.

SHIT LIKE THIS!! Is why nobody likes you.

[Happy Fun Ball]

All I have to say is that I would have lost money on this bet!!!


I was buying Mid-May tickets for the first "TRUMP GONNA KILLAAAArrrs MYSSS SONS!!!1111!!!ELEBINTY"

Now, YOU ****S, I have to pay of on $100 bet to my schadenboner.

SHIT LIKE THIS!! Is why nobody likes you.

Blame it on North Korea, and send that money c/o the FOAD (Father Of All Detonations)*



* What? What did you think it meant?

[thundley4]

He is working part time at the local KFC and is in 10th grade. He isn't likely to go to college immediately after High School (if ever) and he is most certainly NOT a perfect human being. However, he IS a wonderful boy and my wife and I are very proud of the man he's growing into.

Is his name Dindu Nuffin? The DUmmie sounds like most parents talking about their thug sons.

[Adam Wood]

Is his name Dindu Nuffin? The DUmmie sounds like most parents talking about their thug sons.

Took the words right out of my fingertips. 

[98ZJUSMC]

cynatnite (28,618 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028932654

Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!

He turned 18 a few months ago and will soon be graduating high school.

With tRump bringing the US to the brink, I will not allow recruiters in my home. They do have a habit of stalking high school students in our area.

The son and I have been talking about this a little. He does like the idea of the military since both me and his father are veterans. He does understand the costs of war, but with tRump playing with our military like they're toy soldiers, our talks will continue.

This is worse than when bush invaded Iraq. With Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea, I'm ****ing scared as shit right now. I didn't feel like this back then.

I can't control his decisions, but I hope he makes well-informed ones.

I don't think you have anything to worry about.....

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

"Just found out my older brother was going to be shipped off to Canada if the Vietnam war continued or his number came up. Still makes me sick thinking my oldest brother might have been shipped off to Vietnam..... "
Cowards.
My uncle was drafted into Vietnam as a combat engineer. Even though he had some truly awful experiences there, and even though my family owns property in Canada, he was NEVER so gutless as to dodge the draft and flee there.

I'd have to agree with dutch's comment that it sounds really weird that, if the DUmmy op and her hubby were both veterans, that they'd suddenly be so opposed to the military just because of Trump.

[jukin]

Something for lurking  DUchebags.

Concerning Hillary,

Roses are red
Violets are blue
She'll never be President
No matter what you do

[Ptarmigan]

cynatnite (28,618 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028932654

Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!

He turned 18 a few months ago and will soon be graduating high school.

With tRump bringing the US to the brink, I will not allow recruiters in my home. They do have a habit of stalking high school students in our area.

The son and I have been talking about this a little. He does like the idea of the military since both me and his father are veterans. He does understand the costs of war, but with tRump playing with our military like they're toy soldiers, our talks will continue.

This is worse than when bush invaded Iraq. With Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea, I'm ****ing scared as shit right now. I didn't feel like this back then.

I can't control his decisions, but I hope he makes well-informed ones.

You make it sound like the military is kidnapping people into conscription! 

[eismann82]

I'm sure they were generals in the salvation army whose mission was to leave no latrine uncleaned even though the constant fumes from that mysterious blue magic water burnt their brain cells

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[98ZJUSMC]

Something for lurking  DUchebags.

Concerning Hillary,

Roses are red
Violets are blue
She'll never be President
No matter what you do

[98ZJUSMC]

You make it sound like the military is kidnapping people into conscription! 

Nobody in their right mind would "Shanghai" any (D)Ummies.

Unless ..... there are some minefields that need cleared....   

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

You make it sound like the military is kidnapping people into conscription! 

In the DUmmies' dope- addled minds, that is exactly what the US military does.

[I_B_Perky]

cynatnite (28,618 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028932654

Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!

He turned 18 a few months ago and will soon be graduating high school.

With tRump bringing the US to the brink, I will not allow recruiters in my home. They do have a habit of stalking high school students in our area.

The son and I have been talking about this a little. He does like the idea of the military since both me and his father are veterans. He does understand the costs of war, but with tRump playing with our military like they're toy soldiers, our talks will continue.

This is worse than when bush invaded Iraq. With Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea, I'm ****ing scared as shit right now. I didn't feel like this back then.

I can't control his decisions, but I hope he makes well-informed ones.

You and his father are veterans just like my name is Spock and I am from the planet Vulcan. 

[BlueStateSaint]

You and his father are veterans just like my name is Spock and I am from the planet Vulcan. 

Live long and prosper!

[67 Rover]

Live long and prosper!

Meh, I like this version better when dealing with DUmmies.

[SVPete]

Meh, I like this version better when dealing with DUmmies.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLvhKv-Lbo[/youtube]

[AprilRazz]

MarianJack (9,050 posts)
25. My son just turned 17 two weeks ago, and...he's a handsome, bright young man whom many see as having a great resemblance to a young Denzel Washington. He is the only child my wife and I will ever have. He is working part time at the local KFC and is in 10th grade. He isn't likely to go to college immediately after High School (if ever) and he is most certainly NOT a perfect human being. However, he IS a wonderful boy and my wife and I are very proud of the man he's growing into.

My son will NOT die in a war that was fabricated by a treasonous illegitimate and corrupt so called "president" whose first loyalty is to a Russian despot to whom he owes his ass many times over.

I will throw his muscular brown ass into the car and DRIVE his ass to Canada if the reigning Grand Wizard were to reinstate the draft to provide Vladimir Putin with the cannon fodder he desires in their mission to destabilize our country.

**** THEM ALL!

Let the deplorables and teabaggers sacrifice their sons and daughters on the alter of the Putin/Trump/Pence junta, but not my son. Not now and not EVER!

PEACE!

Freud would have had a field day with you.

[FiddyBeowulf]

MarianJack (9,050 posts)
25. My son just turned 17 two weeks ago, and...he's a handsome, bright young man whom many see as having a great resemblance to a young Denzel Washington. He is the only child my wife and I will ever have. He is working part time at the local KFC and is in 10th grade. He isn't likely to go to college immediately after High School (if ever) and he is most certainly NOT a perfect human being. However, he IS a wonderful boy and my wife and I are very proud of the man he's growing into.

My son will NOT die in a war that was fabricated by a treasonous illegitimate and corrupt so called "president" whose first loyalty is to a Russian despot to whom he owes his ass many times over.

I will throw his muscular brown ass into the car and DRIVE his ass to Canada if the reigning Grand Wizard were to reinstate the draft to provide Vladimir Putin with the cannon fodder he desires in their mission to destabilize our country.

Yeah...*cough*perv*cough*

[FaC]

cynatnite (28,618 posts)

Dear Military recruiters...stay the hell away from my son!
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It is simple - YOUR SON can decide if he wants to talk to them or not talk to them. If he is a smart and well put together as you are saying then you should trust him to make the right decision rather than micro managing him.

Typical DUmmie - has to tell everybody what to do and assumes that everybody else is not competent to make their own decisions...

[freedumb2003b]

You make it sound like the military is kidnapping people into conscription! 

For DUmmies they are. The ONE thing you can be sure about DUmmy children is a complete inability to think for themselves.  If someone can get a bright shiny bead in front of them they will follow it!  Thus the DUmmies' constant "parenting" technique of keeping evil ideas away from tender sensibilities of their children, even if those children are in their 30s.