You're on your own. The Air Force recruiter was easier to resist. The Air Force recruiter did not mention the fact that the poem's author, John Gillespie Magee Jr., had died in the war at the age of 19. There is no talk of death in recruiting offices, no talk of danger or war or separation from families. The Marine recruiter added another military carrot by pulling out a sheet of paper with newspaper want ads Scotch-taped to it.
Every job opening requires skills.
We give them to you. My daughter's face began to flush. Those in the military know about death, of course. Major Rossi's husband, Chief Warrant Officer John Anderson Cayton, told the mourners at her funeral that he had prayed hard for his wife's safety while he was serving in Kuwait. His were not the prayers that come on Hallmark cards.