Most soldiers do not “fight for our rights” but rather fight for money, a career, or by compulsion from a draft.

[siru]

Most don’t even fight

 

Can confirm, I didnt fight, and what I did do was for school benefits and dependable income while I decided what I wanted to go to school for.

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't fight either, but a lot of my unit did. I joined for dependable income and free schooling as well.

 

 

Similar situation. I’d just gotten into my dream school and my parents didn’t have the money to pay for it, having declared bankruptcy recently. They also hadn’t filed their taxes in two years, so I couldn’t use them for the FAFSA and couldn’t work out how to get loans. I went out and joined the National Guard a couple of days later and got a juicy sign-on bonus to boot for picking cav scout. I never did a real deployment, since I also contracted with ROTC soon after coming back from training — my unit deployed and seven of 84 were killed, all of them doing what I would have been doing had I gone. I still feel a weird kind of guilt about that.

[siru]

The last war that was really about “our rights” was the civil war. Vietnam, WWI, II, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan were really about global power dynamics. The soldiers that fought in these wars were not defending our rights, because our rights were not really being threatened.

 

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