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Under a provision written into the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress made it mandatory for high schools to provide military recruiters access to juniors and seniors, including names, addresses and telephone numbers. Generally, schools were required to give military recruiters equal access to students as they did to institutions of higher learning, such as colleges and universities. Also under the 'No child left behind' program it is mandatory that schools allow recruiters access to the junior and senior high school students. If they (the schools) fail to comply they can loose all of their federal funding. It would make me very happy to see all federal funding pulled from any of these schools that do refuse to comply, then watch tem get on their knees and beg the recruiters to come back. Shortly before I was stationed at Fort Polk LA. in 1965, the Leesville population complained about the great amount of soldiers that roamed the town on weekends and got the Mayor involved to talk to the post commander. The post commander being an understanding man put the town off limits. Within a month the town was about to go bankrupt due to the lack of business, they had no idea that those soldiers spent thousands of dollars every day in their little dump of a town. The mayor was back on post asking the commander to lift the restriction, nothing more was ever said about it. I saw signs on peoples lawns that said Soldiers and dogs keep off the grass. That was quite a place to be as a soldier. These are the kind of people that our military men and women put their lives on the line for. What we need in this country is a full scale invasion, a lot of bombing and killing to open their eyes to what our military really means to each and every one of us every day. Until their personal safety is endangered they will never understand what true freedom means. But then who would want to invade CA anyway?