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.