As the news is still spouting all the new reactions of Senator Kerry's fellow democrats to his moronic statement, the real truth about who the heroes defending us really are;

"In summary, the additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) sup­port the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight dif­ferences are that wartime U.S. mil­itary enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on aver­age than their civilian peers.

Recruits have a higher percent­age of high school graduates and representation from Southern and rural areas. No evidence indicates exploitation of racial minorities (either by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). Finally, the distri­bution of household income of recruits is noticeably higher than that of the entire youth population.

Demographic evidence discredits the argument that a draft is necessary to enforce representation from racial and socioeconomic groups. Addition­ally, three of the four branches of the armed forces met their recruiting goals in fiscal year 2005, and Army reenlistments are the highest in the past five years. A draft is not necessary to increase the size of the active-duty forces. Our analysis using Pentagon data on wartime volunteers effectively shatters the case for reinstating the draft.

Household Income of Recruits

Like their peers in 1999 and 2003, recruits in 2004 and 2005 came primarily from middle-class areas. Poor areas are proportionally underrepre­sented in the wartime years (2003–2005).

The Department of Defense (DOD) does not track family income data for recruits, and there are no individual income data for enlistees. Military service is the first full-time job for most of them. We approx­imate each recruit’s household income by using the median household income of his or her hometown ZIP code."

This reports puts lie to not only John F'ing sKerry, it also puts Charles Rangels claims that we're sending "poor" people to war for us.  Mr. Rangel, besides the fact that you cannot "send" someone who volunteered, AND they are not from the "poor" areas you cited. 

The best answer to sKerry and Rangel comes from the troops themselves;

[Hat Tip:  Matt Drudge]

You gotta love 'em!  As one congressional candidate was heard to say that sKerry wasn't content to lose in '04, now he wants to lose in '06.  Why haven't any of you asked for his resignation?  You didn't hesitate to demand Trent Lott resign, or Dennis Hastert more recently.