Real Life Military Experience

[Cornelius Quintus]

Far too many people, especially some younger generations have forgotten where we've had to go through, to get where we are today.

Ave Matt,

cool statement while stating your personal age being 29 ;-) )

I think for every person who protests wars and so on, should be rounded up and made to serve in front-line combat units. If they're still upset about war after that..fine, but at least then they'd have an idea of what they were talking about.

Funny, another theory is nearly the same, just changing ‘protest’ into ‘politician’ and ‘upset’ into ‘praising’…

It’s a pity that you can’t talk with my late dad about that. He had some personal reasons to disagree with any kind of war. But you perhaps would have agreed, that his experiences were obviously not comparable to what he could have learned if he had been in the Canadian Army Reserves :wink:

BTW – he was awarded a medal for rescuing some people out of a burning house (when he was 15), was sent into war when he was 16, lost his best friend in the first weeks, served with eight-eight AA guns against Tanks, when his unit was fatally mixed up by Russian T 34’s, was invented to a free 5 years and 6 month holiday in Siberia by ‘Stalin tours’ (including stay in a luxurious five star asbest mine), luckily returned home as one of six (which started as party of nearly 150 kids – another way to lose your playfellows), and when the train from Russia back to home reached the German border, had to hand over his last cigarettes to the customs, because he wasn’t able to pay the tax…

He never hated the army or the Russians (lots of Russians dissidents were killed in that Siberian Camps, too). But he saw enough of the real face of war, far from politician’s speeches and bar-table discussions, to stay away from any further commitment in such action.

So perhaps not all who dislike war are much younger than you and without any front-line experiences.

Good news: I’m no peace-nik, but highly respect modern democratic soldiers who risk their lives to ensure peace. And as a hobby pilot, my dad kept away from any tree by at least thirty meters vertically. :lol: