djhsecondnature

The other thing is that nobody these days - NATO or UN - has conscripted armies. All of us that do what we do, or did what we did, know full well what we’re doing. I was a volunteer soldier, I’ve always been a volunteer soldier - the people out in Afghanistan are volunteer soldiers. It makes the Second World War games worse if anything! Most of those [soldiers] were conscripted and didn’t have a choice but to die. The first waves on Omaha Beach died in their droves and they hadn’t a choice about that. You could say that’s probably worse than the violence that’s going on in Afghanistan or Iraq at the moment.