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on As We Are: Teen Parents

My sex education consisted of helping my best friend thru her pregnancy at 14 years old. Sex ed in schools is horribly lacking. thankfully, Planned Parenthood was there for me and my friend when even our parents were not.

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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on The Iraq Generation

consequences. that's it. do you know what they would be? have you any idea?

saying you are against the war and going to rallies is not much of a sacrifice and doesnt have hard 'consequences'.
and what about the humanitarian missions? my MEDICAL unit has been to S. america and Gorgia (the country) for treatment of the famished, ill and diseased and not once did they fire a an m-16.
My good friend who is also a medic went to Katrina.

what have you sacrificed for the sake of ending the war?
when it amounts to what i would have to sacrifice, i will listen.
i dont think you can. nevermind being willing.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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on The Iraq Generation

for those ignorant enough to join, serving is punnishment enough. we dont need people like you going around compairing us to rapists.

and besides that, an enlistment in the reserve involves an 8 year contract. so there are a lot of soldiers who joined before the start of the war, or when it wasnt as unpopular. beyond that, have you heard of stop loss??
it is ignorant and unfair to place the blame like a blanket over all the soldiers.
what wouldnt i give to stop my 17 year old hand from signing?

a moment of ignorance is worth 8 years of dread.
when will i be deployed? how long? will my spouse still love me when i return home? what if I refuse?
please try to listen and have compassion. I didnt vote for this war. and i certainly dont support it, but there is a heavy price for refusing to go.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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on The Iraq Generation

yes, an occupation.
and yes, our youth (including myself) are a product of the society our parents created.
money and clothes and tv and music are the extent of our depth.
it's not up to children to stop this war, only to be killed in it.
it's up to the boomers. and what are they doing?
crippling us with apathy. crippling us with materialism.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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on The Iraq Generation

you would blame an ignorant and frighted 18 year old for his sad attempt at patiotism? they get them at 17, too. what did YOU know at 17? not the taste of alcohol, the noble feeling of voting, the exitement of sex...

that's the face of todays Soldiers. Children. i see them come in to my unit everyday. they are CHILDREN who are dying in the sandbox.

Do not make these Children your enemy. put blame where it belongs...
on Bush and all the others...
Soldiers, for the most part, are mearly pitiful victims in this money scheme

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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on The Iraq Generation

I am a 22 yr old Sergeant in the Army Reserve. I think that even though we have been in this war for 5 years, the youth of America are sadly ignorant of Iraqi culture or the war in general. Most of my friends now have college degrees, but cannot tell me the difference between Sunni and Kerdish Iraqis. Who or what is to blame for this? I cannot say.
I don't think this war is real to them.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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