Reply #35: Name one other war where the National Guard was sent to fight overseas.

[PinkyisBlue]

The traditional purpose of the National Guard is to protect the homeland AT HOME.
She joined the National Guard, not the Army, because she expected to serve at home.

Also, some of the recruiting practices have been found to be deceitful. In order to make their quotas of new recruits, some of the recruiters have told Army enlistees and National Guard volunteers they will NOT be sent to fight overseas.

I suppose this woman's error was in trusting her government to do the right thing and to not make her choose between her child or her country for a trumped-up war based on lies. It was a choice she never should have had to make because we should never have attacked Iraq in the first place.