With military recruitment at an all time low, local recruiting offices are seeing an opportunity to recriut young people (mostly boys and young men) at the entrance to the Rose Festival via the Salmon Street Springs Fountain entrance. You have to walk past the military booths to get into the Rose Festival. In the time I was there, they lured young people over to the "chin-up bar" taunting those who did not answer their challenge to beat them in push ups, chin-ups, sit ups etc. showing videos etc and then they had them fill out "information requests" for info about the military, but I believe they were appointment schedules and the people filling them out were not aware of that fact. I did NOT see any parents around the young men filling out these "requests".
ROSE FESTIVAL SHOULD NOT BE A RECRUITING GROUND!!! PLEASE LET'S SEE A LITTLE BALANCE TO THESE LIES!
I would suggest a silent protest with pictures of the war dead to show both sides of war, not just the glory of enlistment. Don't forget, they fooled football star Pat Tilman, then lied to his parents about his death by friendly fire all for profit. I won't even go into the economic draft, stop loss, enlistment lies etc.
LET'S NOT LET THESE RECRUITERS GO UNCHALLENGED OR UNANSWERED! Especially since they strategically set up their booths at the one entrance where our recruitment aged young folks are going just to have some fun.
If you can't take a stand, try praying for rain, that might help slow them down a little, but if you are outraged about this, go down to Rose Festival and complain, organize a protest etc.
GET THE RECRUITERS OUT OF THE ROSE FESTIVAL AREA! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD, CALL THE ROSE FESTIVAL OFFICE.
Organize a peaceful response to this attempt to steal the next generation.
SEND IN THE TWINS!!!
Peace,
James Gang
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Here's the story:
Here's the link to some good Counter Recruitment stuff from AFSC:
Find two or three friends, copy some of this stuff (or see if you can get it from the local AFSC office), and head down there!