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Television, movies, video games, and toy
stores all make killing seem not only glorious, but fun.
[Big guy on TV with big gun:] Eat lead, scumface!
[Boy watching TV:] Cool!
High school principals lock the doors and hire armed guards, supposedly
to protect the kids from drug dealers, pimps, and other dangerous
characters. But they roll out the red carpet for the most dangerous
characters of all -- the military recruiters.
ARMY; NAVY; AIRFORCE; MARINES.
The recruiters, who are not quite as honest as used car salesmen, come
armed with slick brochures and glossy promises.
Just sign here and you'll get money for college and we'll train you to
be a nuclear physicist!
Cool!
By the time the recruits find out what military life is really all
about, they're trapped.
I said lick it up -- you got that, wormhead!
The ones who end up on the front lines are usually kids who can't find a
job or pay for college. Almost all of them are from working-class
families, and a disproportionate number are African Americans, Mexican
Americans, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, and other national
minorities. As a result, it's mostly the poor who die on the
battlefield.
That's why 22% of U.S. casualties in Vietnam were Black soldiers.
Even though Blacks only make up 12% of the U.S. population. [118]
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