I don't know how you managed to butcher that quote but, most people in the military are from the middle class. Our lower class is mostly comprised of imigrants that don't qualify for the military. Pat Tillman was real poor huh? maybe it's considered a more likely option for the less endowed but it's a fact of their life that they joined the military to improve their lives, rich, poor, or otherwise.
It's not the rich sending the poor. It's the gov't sending it's troops, all of which volutarily joined.
-Andy