VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Edwin|DATE|1367340524|CONTENT|Britons are members of martial nations not military ones and I find it very wrong that militarism is growing. The armed services are very like the religious. No privilege or concession is quite enough.

See the nonsense that senior military figures promoted that a government had broken &quot;the military covenant&quot;. Total bulwarks, pay, conditions, treatment of wounded and disabled were all better than they had ever been.

Of course when one joins the armed forces one commits oneself to die or to kill, that is the contract. Dport, seeing the world and cosy billets and messes are just benefits. It is not even to provide officers with the sort of country house lifestyle that many could never aspire to. It is a contract with death. And I can admire someone so brave as to accept it.|EMAIL|aeduin@aol.com|IP-ADDRESS|92.6.71.5|MODERATIONFLAG|