Read this. All of it.

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101. No

I was neither desperate, nor ployed. It was simply my path. We all exist in American society. No one is living in a vacuum.

Teens like sex. I wanted school money.

Between enticements, and the MSM, lots of middle and lower class kids end up in the military.

There are some good reasons to fight. Some on the national level. Because of the last 4 debacles, many people view war as always wrong. That's not the case.

Although you're certainly correct to imply that many people in the military are falsely portrayed as heroes. The other side of that coin is that MANY Americans perform heroic acts that are never witnessed. They have a profound positive effect on how Americans are viewed by the locals of the nations we invade. It's impossible to compensate for the net negative effect of the MIC on our victims.

But there are many (really) Americans who are heroic in terms of going beyond expectations, and/or putting themselves unnecessarily at risk simply to have a positive impact on whatever operation they're a member of.

It's way more complicated than a discussion in a forum can cover the scope of.