because I'd love to have someone next to me in the line that is just there because they're being paid to be there or they wanted an opportunity for an education. </sarcasm> I disagree, I think that breeds cowardice and is anti-thematic to the desired outcome, which is a reliable and well trained troops that want to serve protect people and their country. At least when you force people into it, they'll either get used to the idea or intentionally try and get kicked out, which isn't hard.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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