Hi Bob

I didn't want to get into a big discussion because, from past experience, touchy subjects like politics and religion and ideoligies and such can get ugly here. That's all All I meant was that the responses to Steph's post seemed to focus on issues with the military being those such as worrying about whether your partner would be killed, the quality of the military etc.

I can't speak for Steph, but if it was me, and if my partner told me he was going to join the army, I'd have some major problems with that. I am vehemently anti-military, anti-war, anti-violence, and I would have some major issues to deal with if my partner was going to join in with that, particularly if he was going to be part of illegal wars lik in Iraq. It would not be about me worrying about whether he would get killed over there (although if he did go of course I would!) - it would be more like a wake-up call that some of our fundamental values differed greatly.

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And if you're not pro-military,then
why did you get your hair cut short?

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ummm...that's a joke, right?

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