Reply #8: During the WW2 my step-father was exempt because he [View All]

was raising four children. The mother and other relatives were alive, but, he had custody. NOW, they will send the mother and the father regardless of how many children are left at home alone. It's insane. Remember when the Sullivan brothers were all killed on a ship so they made a rule that relatives couldn't at least serve on the same ship at the same time. I might have that messed up a bit, but I know they had made some ruling about not being able to wipe out all the children of a family in the same fighting arena. I guess parents don't count.

Wasn't Saving Private Ryan about getting one of the brothers out of harm's way because the only other son had been killed? It appears that if a whole family, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles have all joined the Guard or Reserves to bring in extra money or save for college, that this government will send them all to Iraq. They don't give a shit.