By: jb
Having the Armed Forces available as an option is a good thing - not only can being in the military help pay for tertiary education, but they offer their own unique training. That said, is it really...
View ArticleBy: The Sprout Queen
Just want to remind everyone about the Social Security survivor benefits that her mother's been receiving since her father died. This is something that separates generations in a very profound way -...
View ArticleBy: jnnla
It's hard not to see this article as channeling the Horatio Alger myth and catering to a wrongheaded American pathology that most folks are just lazy and that if everyone just BUCKLED DOWN then maybe...
View ArticleBy: fifthrider
On rereading I find myself compelled to make public penance for having inadvertently inserted an unnecessary apostrophe in a plural; not sure how that got there.
View ArticleBy: wolfdreams01
It is such a shame that you have to be an extraordinary child...an extraordinary CHILD...to be able to pull yourself even slightly up out of that sort of environment. There aren't many Tabis in the...
View ArticleBy: Snarl Furillo
I assume the reference is to commodity cheese, which is famously disgusting.
View ArticleBy: thelonius
....if he wanted to eat on the weekends, he had to go kill dinner; he still refuses to eat any cheese that isn't on a pizza... I am not seeing the connection. Is this because he couldn't kill cheese?
View ArticleBy: IvoShandor
The point is that there should be options for the poor apart from sinking further into poverty or getting shot at But the reality is, there isn't. And I know you didn't say that but the implication in...
View ArticleBy: roomthreeseventeen
Yeah, my point was that there's something wrong when you're forced to fight for your country to get an education. Not everyone is cut out for a military career, and the years they spend in the service...
View ArticleBy: IvoShandor
Too bad the war on poverty never caught on like the war on drugs. Oh, it did. Just not in the way you'd like.
View ArticleBy: fifthrider
But it doesn't change the fact that many, many people derive great benefit by serving in the U.S. military, and for many that lifeline is essential. I never said it did. Hell, it's definitely helping...
View ArticleBy: IvoShandor
unpleasant implication that our nation is a country run by a handful of aristocrats, protected by an essentially indentured army. And it is, for the most part. But it doesn't change the fact that many,...
View ArticleBy: dhartung
I find the slaps at the Navy misplaced. As others note it can be a career, or with the veterans benefits such as the GI Bill, a leg up to a civilian career. There are opportunities for specialist...
View ArticleBy: gracedissolved
I'm not even sure some people are reading the same article I am. This isn't inspiring, it's horrifying. The story of the one person in a thousand who has the sheer energy to put in this level of work,...
View ArticleBy: notsnot
Buddy of mine likes to tell how if he wanted to eat on the weekends, he had to go kill dinner; he still refuses to eat any cheese that isn't on a pizza. He went in the Corps; with his celestial ASVAB...
View ArticleBy: fifthrider
So, basically, in my case (and I would guess many others) you're entirely incorrect. I think the point being made here is that, although the armed services are one of the best and most respected...
View ArticleBy: octothorpe
New Castle is only about an hour outside of downtown Pittsburgh but it really might as well be in a different universe. There dozens of tough little dead industrial towns in Western PA and I have no...
View ArticleBy: sourwookie
On top of school, she started night classes to get certified as an EMT. True to her promise, her mother enrolled, too, and they sat side by side, sharing Tabi's textbook. Did anyone else get a pause in...
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