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Nitram

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3. Raccoon, there are still many young men who enthusiastically sign up for military service looking

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Tue Sep 4, 2018, 01:18 PM

Sep 2018

forward to the "excitement" and "challenge" of combat. And there always will be. Some of them grew up in a family where the men in every generation served in the military, and others just have a romantic motion of "manhood, courage, and honor." Some even come back from service in a war zone with those idiotic notions reinforced. From what I've read I'd guess Chris Kyle, the guy the movie "American Sniper" was about, was one of those.

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How come in past wars in past centuries men were willing--sometimes eager--to go off [View all] raccoon Sep 2018 OP

Pride of country and humility in oneself. Most rich kids have neither. They weren't raised that way. tonyt53 Sep 2018 #1

The wars are rarely fought on American soil and Americans are democratisphere Sep 2018 #2

Raccoon, there are still many young men who enthusiastically sign up for military service looking Nitram Sep 2018 #3

I joined to get away... SimpleC Sep 2018 #4