What a dumba$$ thing to say. Only poor serve?????? You can not be that stupid. I guess you said it so you likely are. I guess that is what passes as the normal thinking in latte' land.

I come from middle class family and most of my buddies did as well. All those I know and there are many many including brothers and sisters that served did so because that was the way we were brought up. Friends were the same. Most of us grew up on ranches and farms where we worked from the time we were old enough to chase cows and buck hay. We were mostly anti-govern but very very patriotic.

I guess when you come from liberal land you only serve if you are poor and have no options. But in rural America and there is a lot of rural america out there you serve because your parents/uncle/grandparents/brothers/sisters/freinds did.

F-u citiot loosers who veiw all those that grew up the way I did and volunteered to serve with such distain.