Eleven Minnesota Grandmas Attempt to Enlist In US Army
Eleven women, all grandmothers, attempted to enlist at the Army Recruiting Center near the University of Minnesota Tuesday.
The longtime peace activists said they wanted to replace young soldiers serving in Iraq.
“It’sa bloody war, it’s an immoral war, it’s an evil war,” Mary Lou Ottsaid. “We want it to come to a stop, and we have to find creative waysto do that.”
A recruiter told the women the Army would notaccept people older than 35. Police were called after the women satdown in protest.
“We decided that by allowing them to actuallyfill out the actual paperwork, that that would speed along theprocess,” Army Capt. Valent Bernat said.
“We allowed them tofill out the application, and we will submit that up, which I expectwill be rejected for the fact that they don’t meet our requirement,” hesaid.
Go, grannies, go.
There have been 2,327 coalition deaths: 2,130 Americans, one Australian, 98 Britons, 13Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, threeSlovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai, and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq asof December 6, 2005.