What would make you go to war/ or kill

[The Lady of Ithilien]

Originally posted by Renille
CAN girls be drafted????

No. According to current U.S. code, which I don't think Congress changed, women may volunteer (and many do) but aren't subject to the draft as men are. I think the top age for men is 45 or 46, but it's been a long time since I checked.

OK, the "dog" theme has been commented on. What really surprises me is the "if I had something worth fighting for" theme from, presumably, Americans...you know, citizens of the country other people want to visit so they can see poor people who are fat; the inheritors of everything from TJ's "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to Dr. King's "I have a dream"; and so forth.

Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got til it's gone
---- J. Mitchell

You don't know what you've got, so it's not gone yet. But it is one of those "use it or lose it" kinds of things. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life missing what you never realized you had until it was too late?

Or is it just a subliminal query from a generation who's only had it stressed to them what's wrong with America rather than the universe of Americana that is good.

Is that so? Are you all really asking: "what's worth fighting for"?

Well, if I told you, why should you believe me? You have the answer. You live it every day, regardless of what anyone tells you or ever has told you. That is what "inalienable" means. But you have to see it for yourself.

If you don't know how to begin to look, a suggestion would be to start in the direction of whatever held the most meaning for you personally when you first heard the news that terrorists had attacked us in New York and Washington, and that we had fought back on at least one front, in the skies over Pennsylvania.

"We." Think about it.