"You're a dreamer, Beckman, they'll get you first."...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

Poll question: "You're a dreamer, Beckman, they'll get you first."...

...This was a line delivered in a scene from the '69 anti-war film Castle Keep (directed by Sydney Pollack), where Major Falconer (Burt Lancaster) congratulates Captain Beckman (Patrick O'Neil) on successfully knocking a German reconnaissance plane out of the air with a .50 caliber machine gun mount from atop a castle.

It's late in the war and they're in the Ardennes Forest making what they know will be a hopeless stand (only eight men) against approaching German troops en route for Bastone. Beckman is against it, knowing their lives will be unnecessarily lost, it will not alter/influence the already clear outcome of the war, and, seemingly most painful to him, the beautiful castle and its contents will be destroyed. He makes his views known to Major Falconer but the Major will hear none of it.

The scene: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EqFr8h4pWOo

My question(s): If you were Beckman, having failed to convince the other men of the futility of following Major Falconer in making this stand, would you have willfully stayed and followed orders?

And secondly, if at some point in the near future you are called upon (ordered) by the U.S. government to participate and/or contribute much more actively/meaningfully in our Middle East and/or global war effort, and barring any meaningful internal citizen anti-war resistance movement, will you comply?