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raccoon

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Tue Sep 4, 2018, 10:46 AM Sep 2018

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

To fight in wars and nowadays most wouldn’t be? (I certainly wouldn’t blame anyone for that.)

Not only that, but in previous wars, even as recently as World War I and II, men from the upper classes went into actual combat and that rarely happens anymore since WWII, not in this country anyway.

I know what I’ve written is vastly oversimplified. Surely there were men in previous centuries who didn’t want to go to war but were drafted or went because of peer pressure. Or because their homeland was invaded.

We can’t time travel so we can’t really know how the average soldier of previous centuries felt about going into combat. All we have to go on are writings from that time.
So a lot of what I have written may be just the way it is presented to us from the writings of the time, as well as how it’s presented in Historical fiction, movies, and television.

I’d like to hear some of your thoughts about this.

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