Some things are changing now that many National Guard and Reserve
troops are being repeatedly activated. Once again it is friends from
a geographical area serving together and home towns suffering repeat
losses.
Mary
Mary Moyars-Johnson (MMJ)
On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Paul Finkelman wrote:
> Both postings remind us that for most of our history wars were
> fought by
> men who lived together before and after the war. ......... Since
> WWII this has not been the
> case; soldiers are in a professional army, disconnected from the home
> front and from regular Americans; the military is a place for the poor
> and unfortunate who see it as "a way out" of where they are, but the
> soldiers are not part of units that come from where they do.