I mean, really? They signed up for the ARMED SERVICES for cripes sake! It's not like they signed up for a scholarship and then was told "Surprise! You might get sent off to war! What? You didn't know that? Well gosh, you should have read the fine print. Oh well, sorry, but too bad!"
Then you always get the "Oh, it's not that I don't believe in going to war, it's just that I don't believe in THIS war." Again - really? Then why didn't you wait until we were in a war you "believed" in before signing up?
So, let me get this straight. You told the government you were willing to lay down your life for this country. To thank you for your willingness to lay down your life for this country (unless I am mistaken and it actually says something like "I agree to go to war, but only for those that are for the prinicples that *I* believe in and reserve the right to refuse my service for wars that don't make sense to me" - I don't know I've admittedly never signed up) our government then pays for your education. Then when it comes time to actually honor the contract you have signed, all of a sudden you have decided that your scholarship (because that's why you *really* signed up, right?) wasn't worth your life.
You are probably one of those people who also bitch about how the government is spending its budget right? You, who have decided that the only price you should pay for your government subsidized education was your time away from home in boot camp on on some base somewhere. But not your life, no, not that.
People, if you're gonna sign up for the armed services, please make sure you're signing up for the right reasons. And if you don't, or didn't, at least stop complaining about how horrible it is that you were called upon to fulfill your contract.
I just have no patience for that. End rant.
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