There is a noteworthy photograph here of a group of protestors from something called "Military Families Speak Out". They carry signs saying "My son is a Marine. Don't send him to war" or "Don't Send Our Loved Ones to War."
I sympathize with the natural anxiety of parents and siblings who are troubled about their relatives working in a war zone. It would have made far more sense, however, for them to have exerted pressure on their loved ones not to have joined the military in the first place. Might it not have occurred to these worried mothers that the Marine Corps is an organization which, more frequently than many groups in society, sends its employees into battle?
Posted by at April 1, 2003 03:24 PM