A December, 2004 Reprint: Honoring a Guardsman’s Request
In February (2004) I wrote a column upbraiding the national planners for exploiting the National Guard in conducting the war in Iraq. I argued that continuous life-threatening duty was not in the deal made by all of the Guard men and women, but that many of them joined up as a means of financing their higher education.
They had bargained for weekend training and emergency duty, such a...