Moms V. Military Recruiters: As an honorably discharged veteran and as a parent with draft-age children, I'd like to say this about military recruiters: We know what you are!

A military recruiter is a good soldier who has found a way to avoid combat. He (or she) is usually someone with a family. He gets to live with that family as far away from a military post as possible, here in the U.S., not in some foreign country. He gets extra pay. Lots of extra housing and so forth. He gets to live like a civilian. His spouse loves this. His kids get to go to regular schools away from other military brats.

And the more of your kids he can convince to join up, the longer he will be allowed to continue to live this way. A long way from Afghanistan or Iraq. Safe. With extra money, when his brothers in arms are off fighting and being wounded and killed, he's safe and fat and sassy with his wife and kids at home. And he gets to be sanctimonious about serving his country.

Can you see why they want to be in your high schools, telling your kids whatever they think they want to hear to get them to join up?

Like Deep Throat said, "Follow the money."