> I just don't think that's true. Does Davis have any evidence for
> this? Just the other day, Yoshie was arguing that they were all from
> the sticks. That's not true either. My sense is that the U.S.
> military is essentially a cross-section of U.S. society, minus the
> very top and the very bottom. They're better educated than the
> average, or at least as well educated. Standards may be sagging now
> that the military is less attractive than it would be in peacetime,
> but the image of the poverty draft is badly overwrought.
Just look at any one of the maps which pinpoints Iraq War deaths. They gives a good overview of where U.S. soldiers come from. Didn't the NY Times publish a map late last year?
Chuck