>Do you allow your kids to:
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>1. Drive - A life or death activity. More likely to be killed in an auto accident than in war.
>2. Drink - ditto
>3. Have Sex
>4. Smoke
>5. Cross streets
>6. Fly
>7. Marital Arts
>8. Fire weapons
>9. Swim, etc, ad nauseum...?
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>All are just as dangerous as being in the military. I was there for nearly 30 years and saw combat only sparsely.
>I bet if you compare statistics of military deaths per capita to driving deaths per capita, the driving deaths would so far outnumber the military deaths to be completely unarguable.
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>

John;

Circa 1970ish mentality: God has given us the right to be DUI and kill others. Over 30,000 Americans are killed by drunk drivers each year. We lost 58,000 troops in Vietnam. I never understood why a life lost in Vietnam had meaning while being killed by a drunk driver meant nothing.

Military personal are trained to defend themselves. Not all military personal serve in combat zones. The average driver has little or no chance when hit by a drunk driver.

Tom