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Smart One
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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.