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Brave U.S. Army recruiters hide from grandmothers

Despite my antiwar stance, I've always had a great deal of respect for the US Armed Forces. They do very difficult job under less than ideal circumstances that were not of their making.

Recruiters on the other hand, I have no use for. Yes, there are certainly exceptions, recruiters who do have more morals than a cockroach, and I have even met one or two. On the other hand, the recruiter who suckered my son into signing up for the Army before he even graduated from high school was eventually fired because he'd gone too far for even by recruiters' standards. (Of course, that doesn't change the fact that my son is currently in basic training.)

So it was with little surprise and great amusement that I read about Grandmothers arrested at an Iraq War protest. Apparently the grandmothers, members of the Anti-War Grandmothers, a coalition of Grandmothers Against the War, the Gray Panthers, and the New York City Raging Grannies, had gathered outside the recruiting station and claimed to want to enlist. But that's not the best part. The best part, in my view, is the reaction of the recruiters inside the booth:

"We tried to ring the bell at the booth, but no one answered," [Joan Wile, 74,] said. "I saw a head poke up from behind the counter every once in a while and then duck back down. I don't know what they were afraid of. Maybe they don't know how to deal with a bunch of grannies."

The women were arrested for disorderly conduct.

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