Is the army recruiting youth with false promises?
It has been five years since the beginning of the Iraq war and since then approximately 4,000 men and women have died in combat. While the American government debates the future of the American troops in Iraq, many parents who at the moment of the decision to join the military supported their adolescents, today they question whether the tactics the recruiting office used were honest. Many parents who have joined voices against the war in Iraq have come to question whether their adolescents’ decision to join the military was based on an informative or false promise. A student in Chicago decided to join the military after they talked about the GI Bill, which will pay everything for school after finishing their military commitment. A mother in Chicago has been living in desperation since her son joined the military. The recruiting office told her son that he would have a lot of women, a lot of cars, and everything you want. Jimenez, who is a mother of 4, remembers how her son loved unifor
