A dying breed of warriors

Yesterday there was a good piece in the Gurdian of the past that will not soon live with us any more, Lest we forget.

All the people still alive who fought not in the World War II - but WWI - are over 100-years-old. But memories of any war tend to be etched in the minds of those that have had to go through them painfully well. This piece is thus well worth a read for anyone wanting to join the army.

Technologies might have changed, but even today's wars are no video-games - as the TV images of distraught parents and relatives of those perished show painfully well.

Actually, and perhaps contradictorily to the previous, anecdotal evidence that I have come across (admittedly, in Finland) shows that the group with expressing the most pro-military attitude is the middle aged. Those who have fought in wars and the young people considered 'ripe' for military tend not to be that keen.