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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
There's a difference between voluntary military service and a draft. People tend to start looking at the military differently when they are forced into it.
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For the most part I disagree. The peace movement hated conscription and saw every member of conscription as a victim. But once you were in uniform and in the war you became a hated enemy and a focus of protest.
The hippies didn't separate the volunteers from the drafted.
There is an element to volunteer soldiers that you are bang on about, the American Military has done a great job of portraying their soldiers as volunteer guardians.
However the Stop Loss movement made it almost seem like conscription again.