http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/10/10/bad-economy-helps-military-recruiting/ Updated information on Veteran Benefits, featured Military Bloggers, the You Served Podcast and various other news and information relevant to Veterans. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/10/10/bad-economy-helps-military-recruiting/comment-page-1/#comment-152027 Miss Ladybug Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:26:05 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2008/10/10/bad-economy-helps-military-recruiting/#comment-152027 You know, this doesn't surprise me. I recently finished reading a memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton. She married "Georgie" well before WWI, and Patton, of course, served until his death after the fighting was over in WWII. Although Patton served during the Great Depression, that didn't figure at all into the story Ruth Ellen had to tell about her family during that time - they were an Army family - again, in a time when the military was somehow separate from, and looked down upon by, "polite society", so they always had a roof over their heads and food on the table (although it likely didn't hurt that their families - both the Pattons and the Ayers - had money. Actually, one of Patton's posting near DC was precisely because he had access to money that would accommodate the entertaining that was expected for the rank and position he held... You know, this doesn’t surprise me. I recently finished reading a memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton. She married “Georgie” well before WWI, and Patton, of course, served until his death after the fighting was over in WWII. Although Patton served during the Great Depression, that didn’t figure at all into the story Ruth Ellen had to tell about her family during that time – they were an Army family – again, in a time when the military was somehow separate from, and looked down upon by, “polite society”, so they always had a roof over their heads and food on the table (although it likely didn’t hurt that their families – both the Pattons and the Ayers – had money. Actually, one of Patton’s posting near DC was precisely because he had access to money that would accommodate the entertaining that was expected for the rank and position he held…

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