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Originally Posted by NoRoadtrippin
With respect sir, I ask...really? Do you truly think that your upbringing, skills learned, morals imparted, opportunities and experiences had or not had were all meaningless the day you arrived at basic?
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I don't think that was the point at all. Was your upbringing rendered moot?
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Originally Posted by NoRoadtrippin
Will the military alter him in its own way? Well, of course. And yes, he will learn to march to a different drum, or drill sergeant, on this new path he's chosen, but no person's past becomes instantly "meaningless" when they join the Army.
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And yet....
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Originally Posted by NoRoadtrippin
The private, rather expensive and left-leaning school that I attended ROTC at was filled primarily by exactly the type of people the book discusses.
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You felt compelled to tell us about your rather expensive, left leaning college that you attended for four years.