Did you marry out of your childhood home?

Some is the operative word, Ralphy. Doing your job in combat is one thing, glorying in carnage is another. That is not a warrior, but a psychopath.
 

There are lot of them thru history so I am not sure that they qualify as psychopaths. Remember propagand psyches troops up to kill the enemy who are lower than vermin...
 
I was 21 when I married my husband. I had been living at home. The day after we married we left Ky with my husband's brother and his wife to Chicago where his brother had gotten him a job in a factory where he worked. We were there for almost a year but missed Ky. We moved back and were happily married for 37 years until he died in September of 2009. He left me with 2 beautiful children.
 

Lynk said:
I was 21 when I married my husband. I had been living at home. The day after we married we left Ky with my husband's brother and his wife to Chicago where his brother had gotten him a job in a factory where he worked. We were there for almost a year but missed Ky. We moved back and were happily married for 37 years until he died in September of 2009. He left me with 2 beautiful children.
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Lovely!
 
Ralphy1 said:
Not to berate them, but they joined and wanted to see some action. They got more than they bargained for...
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I believe that's really unfair and disrespectful, Ralphy. Back when I was a teen, people were still being drafted. And many join the military out of patriotism and/or to make a good career for themselves.

More importantly, if men hadn't joined up to fight in WWII, we might be speaking Japanese.

I've known a lot of career military in my life, and the very vast majority of them are decent people trying to serve their country, for not so great pay. I can't BELIEVE you are trying to paint the people who protect our country as a bunch of blood-hungry adventurers. Get off their backs -- they are out there protecting your right to say such disrespectful things about them.

Were you among those who so seriously disrespected those returning from Vietnam??
 
I don't think it's so much enlisting is looking for excitement and adventure. It's about a mindset some people have. It isn't about gender really. Some folks are more logical, disciplined, motivated, driven...perfect career soldier material. My oldest boy could have made the SEALS absolutely. That was his goal from the time he was a kid. He was going to enlist right after graduation. Then 9/11 and we agreed together he didn't want to die in Afghanistan. He would have been ideal in the military though.
 

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