People "of Priviledge" Joining the Armed Forces

According to an AP story in the The Modesto Bee:

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - (Dr. Laura) Schlessinger told some 300 people at a 425th Civil Affairs Battalion event on Saturday that her son, 19-year-old Deryk Bishop, will join the U.S. Special Forces later this year - a mission that could take him to the Middle East.

Bishop, who enlisted last year, joined his mother on stage to explain his reasons for signing up. He told the crowd at the Calvary Chapel that he resented the way Americans criticize the war without recognizing soldiers' sacrifices - a theme echoed by his mother"

A related note: my wife works in an OB/GYN clinic here in Dallas and a Military Recruiter came in the office with his pregnant wife last week. As they were talking about Iraq and his recruiting duties, my wife asked him how the recruiting numbers were holding up. He said the numbers were very good at his office (not sure which branch of the service he was in) and he said you wouldn't believe the numbers of doctors and lawyers who come in to sign up. When that happens they are routinely sent for a "psych eval" just to make sure they're mentally stable. The reasoning goes that they must be crazy to want to leave a successful profession to fight in a war. Without exception, he said, "they just want to help out any way they can," whatever the cost. We're not hearing many stories like this from the old media.