THE RECRUITER'S NEW ENEMY

Parents.

While statewide recruitment goals haven't suffered because of the Army National Guard's growing role in Iraq, some local recruiters say the war is making their jobs more difficult.

"The war is an issue," Sgt. First Class Thomas Dwyer told the Daily Record of Parsippany. "Kids go home thinking they want to do it, and then their parents hear the word military and they think they'll go to war."...

"One mother said to me that her son could join when he was 18," Dwyer said. "She said she wasn't giving him her signature because if something happened to him, the guilt would be on her shoulders."

I know that a lot of parents of deployed soldiers read this website frequently.

In view of those mentioned in this story, I salute you for recognizing that service can't always be "somone else's job".