The Accidental Soldier

march 11, 2003  11:10 am
The Accidental Soldier
Monterey County Coast Weekly's Jessica Lyons writes about her little brother being deployed in the National Guard call-ups as the war with Iraq draws ever closer. The boy who kept Pound Puppies on a shelf and turned off a Winnie-the-Pooh lamp to go to sleep at night is now a 22-year-old man who has abandoned his nose ring and found George Bush. "To me, he's still a kid. He's not old enough to fight a war," she writes.