Docspud,

You responding to my post? If so, please re-read. I most emphatically did not say that ONLY the poor served. Rather, the poor and minorities serve in the military in a proportion higher than their demographic in US society over-all. I'll give you credit for being smart enough to understand what that means until I see otherwise. In case you don't, it means that while blacks make up about 12% of the US population, the military consists of more than 12% black service members. And the wealthiest 1% of Americans serves at considerably less than 1% of all service members, etc. That's not so hard, is it?

Sg