Sunday, December 12, 2004
70 year old get called up for active service
He's 70 and being called to active service, someone explain to me how the war is going well when we call the elderly in the elderly?
We young folk need to seriously consider joining up or leaving the country before the draft comes back. If drafted the draftee gets no college money and limited health care so it would be better now to move to Europe or enlist now before it get too late.
Thanks to Blah 3 for catching this one!
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He's 70 and being called to active service, someone explain to me how the war is going well when we call the elderly in the elderly?
Dr. John Caulfield thought it had to be a mistake when the Army asked him to return to active duty. After all, he's 70 years old and had already retired - twice. He left the Army in 1980 and private practice two years ago.
"My first reaction was disbelief," Caulfield said. "It never occurred to me that they would call a 70-year-old."
In fact, he was so sure it was an error that he ignored the postcards and telephone messages asking if he would be willing to volunteer for active duty to "backfill" somewhere on the East Coast, Europe or Hawaii. That would be OK, he thought. It would release active duty oral surgeons from those areas to go to combat zones in Iraq or Afghanistan.
But then the orders came for him to go to Afghanistan.
We young folk need to seriously consider joining up or leaving the country before the draft comes back. If drafted the draftee gets no college money and limited health care so it would be better now to move to Europe or enlist now before it get too late.
Thanks to Blah 3 for catching this one!
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