[rollei_list] Conscription
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:35:19 -0400
At 12:14 PM 5/29/2008, slobodan dimitrov wrote:
>After talking to the guys who were US, I decided to go RA.
To translate this for our non-USian members,
Slobodan is saying that he voluntarily enlisted
rather than being conscripted, a choice back in
the Viet-Nam and Korean War eras. In the two
World Wars, you were not permitted to voluntarily
enlist though you could "volunteer" for the Draft.
Again, none of my ancestors were ever drafted so
the system is a bit alien to me. I did have two
fourth-great-uncles killed at the Battle of
Culloden but they showed up on their own in the
service of the "King over the water" and had to
send their kid brother home and glad I am that
they did so, as he was my
fourth-great-grandfather. Of course, they served
in the Perthshire Regiment and died wearing their kilts.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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