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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
I don't think you guys are seeing the big picture. i respect these guys - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Apr12.html
Look at him! He made something of himself! He got out of the gang life and joined the military! He has turned himself from a lowest, least respected person in society and into someone who is now going somewhere! If he goes 'back' to gang life after his tour in the military, I must not know anything of human nature! i am sure it happens, but here is a boy, who turned himself into a man, has garnered respect, fought for his country, and has tasted sucess and knows he can suceed when he gets back home. Gangsters however feel that they can't stand on their own, can't make it in society, and need the ganster bond as a sort of child blanket for support. This guy no longer needs these bonds and will probably do well later on in life. I am proud of him that he got himself out of his downward spiral! He did what all is so called homeys are incapable of.
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Another thing to consider is that the military tends to give the people who have served a sense of investment in their country. We hold nothing more dear than that which we have earned/protected/obtained through blood, sweat and tears hard effort.
It also gets those kids out of the closed worlds of the slums, barrios and projects and gives them a new appreciation of just how good we have it here in America.
Also, while in they are forming the strongest of bonds with fellow Americans that they would never have met had they stayed in the ethnic and social enclaves they came from.