Fun Facts About The Military.
And more great things that your local high school's ROTC army recruitment office doesn't want you to know.

In the cafeteria of Hillhouse, a high school with a high minority and a junior ROTC (army recruitment) office located within its halls, it's not an unusual sight to see a table in the cafeteria with pamphlets and flyers.

Many Hillhouse students initially believed that the table represented military recruiters, but that was not the case. "Hi, are you thinking about joining the military?"
"Actually, maybe."
"Well here are a few facts you should know."

Protected by the constitution, and with the permission of the school principal Lonnie Garrett as well as members of the board of education, the group at the table is an alliance formed by the New Haven Peace Coalition and Yale Peace, an organization similar to it consisting of yale students. Both students and faculty were receptive of these peaceful anti-recruiters. "Military recruiters leave out facts, because they're commissioned for all they enlist These kids deserve to know.

One of the members of New Haven Peace, a veteran by the name of Jerry Topitzer, talks to students individually. He's lost much of his hearing from firing a rifle, and still feels patriotic about his country. He doesn't even frown upon his experience in the armed forces, but believes that "the war in Iraq is unjust."


Asked about his success as a promoter of "alternatives to military service," he stated that "Connecticut and New Haven in particular are fairly liberal, as is California. In California, for example, they're trying to pass legislature to ban military recruiters from high schools."