It's Your Duty Caleb
Posted on: July 23, 2008 7:11 pm
How anyone could have a problem with the Army forcing Detroit Lion Caleb Campbell into service, effectively removing him from the NFL, I don't know.
The government paid for his West Point education. The government spend tens of thousands preparing him to serve. No one forced Campbell to join. No one made him apply to West Point.
He'll have to do what many thousands of other West Point grads did: fulfill their military obligation.
And the problem with that is?
The war in Iraq will go down as one of the worst presidential blunders in history. I'm not so sure former Los Angeles county prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's argument in his best-selling book that Bush is treasonous is erroneous.
Still, Campbell knew what he was doing when he agreed to a legally binding contract.
Why should he be treated any differently from the many hundreds of thousands of other soldiers in Iraq? Soldiers who fulfilled their duty?
Because he can play football?
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Posted on: July 23, 2008 7:34 pm
It's Your Duty CalebOk, then why would they allow him to enter the draft? Then months after the draft they said, "Oh that rule is old, we want you to server"? I am in the military myself, and I do not have a problem with him being excused from his duties to play football. It is the Armies fault for letting him enter the draft. Now the losers of this are the Detroit Lions. Oh wait, they have to wait until 2010 to see him play. |
