Dissent Of The Day

A reader writes:

Since when do any of us "send our sons" to America's wars? I don't think any parent of a soldier or Marine ever uses the
or even once thinks in the terms of "I sent my son (daughter) to
(In a way, we all "send" them.)  Please stop using this thoughtless phrase today!

My son, by the way, is at an FOB (that's Forward Operating Base for you civvies) in Afghanistan. I did not send him, any more than the other thousands of soldiers and Marines in harm's way had...