Reply #11: I don't think proud is the word. I feel bad for them.

[Stirk]

Most join the military out of economic necessity. Either there's no work at home, or they want the GI Bill.

So I see alot of people who were caught in the gears of an unjust machine, sent to kill other people and make money for corporate fat cats. And while they were away, the lives of their friends and families are being attacked by the same men who sent them to war. Social Security, education, healthcare, you name it.

When I was a kid I liked to read books about medieval history. I would always ask my dad why the peasants would fight for their local Lord, when that Lord was not their friend. They'd be expended as fodder in large conflicts, and surely some of them knew it. My dad didn't have an answer for me back then, but I think that now I know why.