This is the last time I will speak with you. You are not opinionated, you are callus and judgmental, terribly ignorant, and rude. You have no idea what it means to be a mother, and you will be a very lucky woman if any child you should have turns out as well as my son. I am very proud of him, he is probably the one piece of greatness I will ever create.
My son is 21, and joined the military out of high school for a six year hitch. He will be shipped to Japan this coming April. Since you claim to be a liberal, you probably don't know this, but it's very difficult to make lasting relationships in the service, unless you want to marry a civilian and drag them all over the world and even then it's a terrific hardship on your spouse. The divorce rate for military/military marriages, however, is somewhere in the 85% to 95% range.
I was that boys "mommy" until the day he graduated basic training. I am still his mother, but he's had to do things in his time in the service that have taken him to a totally different point in his life. He's told me stories that make me respect him. He's done things I'm pretty sure I couldn't do. I have no right to judge his actions. I don't encourage him to be a tramp, but I have told him to keep his relationships light, happy, have fun, enjoy each other, but try not fall in love because of the failure rate of military relationships. People in the military are terribly lonely, they fall in love quicker, more easily, IMO, than civilians because they are constantly uprooted and often under extreme stress. Even the ones who aren't deployed are under stress.