re: Could almost anyone born after 1940 fight in WWI

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I agree back then it was brutal but at least you knew your enemy.

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Who? People who fought for the Kaiser? Some bullshite going down in the Balkans? Why did anyone who was British give a shite about that? I think to people born after this, the answer would be clear on who they should be fighting against, and it is the ruling class. The Russians directly acted on those ideas and thus the Soviet Union was born.

At least these days they know these thugs would want to kill them and their whole family if they had their way. They saw their German enemies across the trenches and identified with their direct situation. That's not good in war and makes your soldier much less likely to shoot someone in a moment of pity. They knew the only reason they were firing upon them is because their superior officer told them to do so.