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DON'T DO IT! You could be throwing your life down the drain for nothing! Even if the army sounds appealing now, or you think you're serving Uncle Sam, when you're holding a gun in Iraq and being told to shoot to kill, it won't seem so fascinating.
I know I'm biased, as I'm Canadian and up here we don't support you guys' war with Iraq/Iran/whatever other country you don't like (or at least I've never heard or read of someone supporting it). However, war is war, and unless you truly believe that you are making a difference and fighting for the right thing, you shouldn't go (for example, I would've gladly fought in WWII, but not in your war). You don't have to follow in anyone's footsteps. You are your own person and you shouldn't let your father and aunt having high positions influence a decision that could lead to your death.
I see dead soldiers on TV, and deaths they caused, and I wouldn't want anyone to be in either position, killing or being killed. Maybe I'm a liberal pacifist. Maybe I don't see the whole picture. But what I'm certain of is that if you join the army you will be CHOOSING to risk dying and CHOOSING to perhaps have to KILL another human being, be they "evil" or an innocent civilian walking home from school. I read an article about a little girl who is missing an arm because of the US Army. More have been r aped, killed, orphaned.
But don't take my word for it.
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