Bryce wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:3FB206C8.9B14B7F1@yahoo.co.jp...
> > Bryce wrote:
> >
> > > > Are you serving in a war zone?
> > >
> > > No, because I made the educated decision not to. And I made the educated
> > > decision to be happy with the situation as well based on research and
> facts;
> > > not because I couldn't do anything else in life and thus decided to join
> the
> > > army.
> >
> > There are people not as "educated" as you in the military. There are also
> > people who take any manner of other kinds of risks, or even those which
> will
> > almost certainly result in death.
> >
> > I don't characterize them as stupid or mentally retarded.
>
> You may characterize them as you wish.

I will characterize them as factually not "stupid" or "mentally retarded".

> I will do the same.

Which is in error.