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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
This is a board for lawyers -- so darn few. Same for journalists, and really for any profession requiring advanced degrees.
Also with a volunteer, professional military which is much smaller than during the Cold War, Americans in general are becoming more and more divorced from their military, or from an understanding of what they do. Just a fact of life.
S_A_M
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Huh? What does being lawyers have to do with anything? I was talking with a lawyer yesterday whose husband (also a lawyer) is in Iraq right now. My college roommate (she of the multiple advanced degrees) is married to a high-level DOJ guy who's over there on a 2-year tour. And plenty of lawyers grew up in military families. It's not as though touching the military makes you incapable of experiencing the professional ranks, geez.
That said, I would agree that Americans are generally divorced from and clueless about and unfortunately perhaps unappreciative about what the military is and does, despite the yellow ribbons and the howling of the press. I get the sense sort of of a "those people" phenomenon, though at the moment I live in a place without any real military presence, which has not always been the case.
