National Guard Finds Recruits, Parents Reluctant

National Guard recruiters say they are coming up against a force at least as powerful as economics or patriotism: parental instincts. " `Aren't there enough older people, grown men, to send over to Iraq? You have to go after 17-year-olds?' " Julia Couch recalled asking Moody. "We are a very patriotic family. But I'm not going to sign what I felt like might be my son's death warrant." (Editor's note: Mrs. Couch, the United States does not have enough "grown men" to go to war because Americans have murdered off 45 +million people in the last 30 years by abortion, so young men like your 17-year-old son will have to pay the price.) Posted by Editor at September 29, 2003 10:22 AM