No Money For College

Many young people today are enlisted in the U.S. Army. They are the ones who are risking their lives to fight the War against Terror. Many of these people are as young as 17, holding guns on their hands while shooting a target to get a better accuracy for when they go to Iraq, to kill the "evils" that are out there. But have you every thought why these people, who are so young, are going out to the cold face of war?

One major cause is what Dr. Teresa Whitehurst says, in her article The US Military is Luring and Brainwashing American Children. She says that one of the major causes for this is that young people don’t have a lot of money to go to college. Now-a-days, college can be very expensive and can be very overwhelming. They see that the army is the only way to get themselves the $50,000 to get their lives started.

I think that this is not the way to get their lives started. They do have many options on how to get the money they need. They could take out loans,even though if hard to pay off, but that is still a choice before they consider war. Many young people have a whole future ahead of themselves, and tragically, war is the reason that their future is cut too short.

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