Should Citizens Have The Right To Serve The Military

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Citlaly Silveira
2/9/2016
Mr.Recinto
English 9B
Should Citizens have the right to refuse to serve in the armed forces?
Yes, because based on our moral freedom as human beings. People in the military said that is not good to serve "Since Americans involved in wars usually have nothing to do with "serving your country" or "defending your freedom"".(1)Citizens should have the right to refuse because, one's bot prepared, their family needs them.
They are not prepared, according to the white house most of the people who serve the army are not prepared. They take more time to train the soldiers that are not prepared. They are not going to gain enough if they have someone who it's prepared to do things that are needed to do. Especially when they are in a type of mission
Their family needs them, soldiers are being forced to choose between they children and the
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They have to serve the military and defend the country and be ready to be there for everything they need to serve the country. But their family needs them and are not prepared they don't need to be forced.
People can say no for serving the military if they want or have a new experience. Military should ask if they want to join but they need to stop and not force anybody to serve the military. Is really immoral to force a human being to do something they don't want to do so they should stop for a better country. Work Cited
Watanabe, Kevin K., and Han K. Kang. "Military service in Vietnam and the risk of death from trauma and selected cancers." Annals of epidemiology 5.5 (1995): 407-412 Weisskopf, M. G., et al. "Prospective study of military service and mortality from ALS." Neurology 64.1 (2005): 32-37.
"Military." The white house. The white house, 13 May 2013.web.03.Feb.2016.
Feaver, Peter D. "The civil-military problematique: Huntington, Janowitz, and the question of civilian control." Armed Forces & Society 23.2 (1996): 149-

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