Poor man's army.

• Author: Allen, Bertram S., Jr.
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

It is not just 19-year-olds who fight our wars ("Uniform Disaster" by Joe Galloway, October). They are economically disabled, poorly educated, rural 19-year-olds who have little insight about national and international conflicts and politics. They are high-school dropouts with G.E.D.s, teens who have records in juvenile courts, recruiters' dream kids who need an avenue to get their records expunged, who need a route to a skill, who take the gamble...