re: My dad told me about getting drafted in the army

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All war is bad, but yea, riding around in a humvee in Fallujah and having a hidden bomb blow your vehicle up would kinda suck. Today’s war you don’t know your enemy, a child runs up to give you a hug and detonates a bomb, frick all that. Obviously many more died in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, but there are many brave millineals (spell?) that served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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My uncle was born in 1933 and grew up in occupied Holland. For a few years there was a German antiaircraft battery on his family's farm. His father gave the Germans so much shite they moved the guns and searchlights further away from their house. That's balls ...

Anyway, I was talking with him during the early days of the insurgency in Iraq and the use the use of IEDs. His words were, "That's not a war over there now. That's murder." That about sums it up.