Arizona Takes A Big Step Back. WARNING, GRAPHIC!

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I'm pretty sure many families with loved ones who have been there know that their special people were killed or maimed for nothing. If they don't they are blind, deaf & dumb.[/size]

Military service is employment with high risk. They were paid wages. They weren't killed or maimed for free.

You sound as though you were describing mercenaries.

I believe that they they joined the military trusting their Government not to put them in harm's way needlessly.

A mistake in judgment (and an obvious one after Viet Nam) but that is the nature of patriotism.

And makes the betrayal of that trust so evil and inexcusable.