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Old 11-11-2013, 06:34 AM  
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Originally Posted by Emil View Post
Are they forced to be soldiers too? I dont agree with the 50/50-part but the "serving your country" aka USA-superhero-soldier-veterans bullshit is just ridicules.
In your country and my country people that are shipped into war zones are all volunteers, at least in this day and age. But I think that memorial day in the US represents all fallen soldiers and veterans. Plenty to be honored.

Many people that have your point of view, forget that it wasn't that long ago that we were liberated by (amongst some) the US from the Nazis and if it weren't for the allied forces - we'd have all been part of the old borg-collective-USSR.

But yea, as L-Pink said you can be drafted and you can be forced to go to war in the US. At least when I was stationed with NATO I met some US soldiers that were not there because they wanted to be.
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