Hello. I am going to start this blog first by saying that I do not agree with the stop loss policy of the United States. I do not agree with any sort of mandatory military service at all, actually. I think that a country that cannot defend itself with voluntary military service does not deserve freedom at all.
So, what should a soldier do if he is asked to return to the heat of battle against his will? The most logical choice would be to go AWOL and move to Canada. We all know, however, that Canada is the worse place in the world, so there has to be another choice. I would try to start some media fire on the issue. Get the press involved, and let the American people know what a troubled soldier is going through. If war really does put that much psychological stress on its soldiers, I have a feeling that our caring countrymen would help. If that doesn’t work, another possible option would be to claim psychological problems. The military sure does not want a trigger-happy war veteran returning to take revenge. It’ll be like pleading insanity in a criminal trial. That should be pretty easy to pull off, seeing as King has hallucinations of battle scenes when he is back in the United States.
In reality, though, I do not think that there is much one can do if a stop-loss is issued. That is one of the many fatal flaws of this country.
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