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.