----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Scouted: Commentary: Why Europe Sides Against the Jews / tim e.com
> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > > > He scolds Europeans for not doing what (in his opinion) they should have > > done, but I do not see him criticising Americans for the same lack of > > action. After the September 11 attacks, the entire US population called for > > action against the terrorists. But how many of them did actually go out and > > join the military so they could fight? One in 10,000? One in a 100,000? > > I went looking for statistics on military recruitment since 9/11 and > didn't find any. (I expect Dan M. will come up with some in a 5-minute > search and chide me gently for not finding it myself. And then I'll ask > him how he did it, and kick myself for not having thought of something I > should have when I see his response to that question.) Well, I did a search and came up with a recent news item that relates to this at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020423/ap_wo_en_ge/us_no _recruiting_boom_1 Sorry, its a long adress, but it can be pasted together. I got there by going to Yahoo news and typing military enlistment in the search field. It was the second place I tried..hotbot came up a cropper. So it took me about 5 minutes, I guess. :-) The short synopsis of the article is that the military doesn't see the increase in enlistment as directly tied to 911. However, the armed forces are meeting or exceeding their quota. I'll post later on how I think the average American is contributing to the fight against terrorism. Dan M.
