Reblogged from a12iggymom's Blog:
Obama: Soldiers in Afghanistan Must Be Fired Upon to Receive Combat Pay
While I understand that only a fraction of the population of this nation is directly affected by what you are about to read, I would never-the-less like to remind you that the remainder of the population is affected coincidentally. While the majority of the American population probably never even considered the Armed Forces as a possible career objective, there are those who never considered life without serving their country, in uniform, on a field of combat.