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Originally Posted by Maggy J
This is all true for the present modern day set up..wasn't true for my father's generation though.He was called up,not an enlisted man and WW11 was an entirely different war not just of the technology but because our servicemen were fighting to protect our freedom which was directly threatened.
However do you really think that fighting and reducing the Taliban and Al Qaeda is not defending this country from terrorist attacks?Is that not protecting our freedoms?  |
Maggy. I'm quite sure that if you ever get, or got your dad to really talk about what he did in the war, he'd tell you it was for his mates and the people he loved. People talk about Queen and Country, protecting our way of life, or values, or democracy blahblahblah.... But when some provo/Iraqi/Serb/ Afghan/ Argie is trying to slot you, you realize these things are too big and abstract. So you rationalize it to a more manageable level. You fight, and if you die, you do it for the lads around you, and the people you love at home.
I have a feeling that dying for King/Queen and Country died in the years between 1914 and 1918....