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I was at personal training today with my recruiter and the other guys. While we were stretching out, an older lady came up to us. I have to add the fact that she was an immigrant. I knew it because she had a very thick accent. Anyway, she saw the Marine Corps shirts we were wearing and ask us a very hurtful question. She asked, "are you guys training to kill people?" She then said," It's people like you who kill people and cause there to be no peace in the world. If everyone stopped killing we would have peace." My recruiter answered her very respectfully. He said, "No ma'am. We are not training just to kill people, we are training to defend our nation. She said some other words after his statement and then she left. I thought to myself, people are going to ask me these types of question all the time. I know what i would say. I would be as respectful and i can because i know it is not that easy to say everybody stop killing. I know that is NEVER going to happen. People have a habit of wanting to rule over others. I mean that is even in the bible if you want to be religious about it. It was funny because she is a new American and trying to say defending our nation is wrong, when she moved from wherever she came from just to come here. She is against the military. I understand that but that is her opinion.

cordeliabrainiac

That's one of the things that make this country great...everybody is entitled to their opinion, whether we like it or we don't.

The fact that she may or may not be an immigrant is irrelevant. Did you consider that she might have a speech impediment? I thought my neighbor in Texas was Swedish ~ she wasn't. She was deaf!

You have to do what you know to be true.

El Compa

Just ignore it or try to give a respectful answer.I got a lot of negative feedback from people I barely knew when they saw any military insignia on me or my cousin.

Scuba

Maybe we wouldn't have to kill people if they didn't kill us and/or other helpless people.

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