This is complicated and I'm prolly getting it wrong, but it seems that the October issue of Vogue has a story by "trailblazing journalist" Maggie McGuane whose son enlists in the Army and features these types of statements:
There is an arrant social iniquity that comes from our country's all-volunteer army. Some ZIP codes, those of America's upper socioeconomic stratosphere, have been unscathed by the war in Iraq, while others, particularly in provincial America, take disproportionate losses. It's in those regions that public school students are targeted by military-recruitment efforts, as their labors are more often rewarded in places where patriotism is as common as yellow-ribbon bumper stickers, and high school kids see few options for escaping the confines of their hometowns.
Anyway. It turns out that the kid (Zach) is not strictly her son, and not even really her stepson as she is only dating Zach's father and they keep separate residences. And Zach's mom is NOT happy with Maggie's attempt to pimp out her son's personal decisions for a magazine story. |
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