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This is not a great story. This is a kid who VOLUNTEERED to serve his country during wartime that gets out of it because he is good at playing a game. Now before everyone destroys me let me clarify, I am extremely happy for Caleb and his family.
During the course of the draft Caleb Campbell's name kept coming up as being in a "life or death" situation. The message there is if he doesn't get drafted he dies. I think this story does nothing but remind the families of service men and women are either currently in Iraq or on their way to Iraq just how bad it could be. What about his football teammates, his classmates, are they condemned to die because they can't play football? Is that a "great story"? I love that Caleb gets a chance to play ball and I wish him nothing but the best, but the focus of this story and all our cheers, thoughts, prayers, etc should be about the men and women being deployed not the ones with good 40 times.
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