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0 pointsdang7y ago0 comments

Soldiers don't make policy.

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Fomite7y ago· 1 in thread

And yet I find the answer to "Why did you sign up?" to be "To defend the guy next to me!" an odd statement.

Should no one be a soldier in peacetime? Because logically, if the hypothetical guy next to you isn't getting hypothetically shot at...

dangOP7y ago

It isn't why people sign up; it's why they continue to fight after the reasons they signed up have become destroyed in them.

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