[lbo-talk] Mike Ballard, "Why I Joined Up"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

A while ago, Mike Ballard mentioned his experience of joining the  
military on this list, so I asked him to write an essay about it.   
Mike graciously agreed, so here it is:

Mike Ballard, "Why I Joined Up"
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ballard031205.html>

It evokes the atmosphere of "Cold War American culture" very well,  
and probably many young people in rural America today in some ways  
feel like Mike did, too.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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