RE: They gave their lives....

[Charlie Bell]

> > I think it is up to *me* to decide when and where I risk my life, and
> anyone
> > who acts otherwise needs some ungentle re-education.
> >
>
> So, if you were born 60 years earlier, and decided that it was best that
> other people fought the Battle of Britian for you, are you suggesting that
> you would claim that was your right..and one that you would enforce at
> gunpoint if need be?
>
> Dan M.

I believe the point is that there needs to be a way out of fighting.

In the US, I believe it was possible to apply for "Conscientious Objector"
status (is that right?) during Vietnam. You didn't have to fight if you
could show that fighting was against your principles, although you did have
to spend an equivalrnt time (2 years? 3?) involved directly and full time
with community service type work at home.

(And Dan, the Battle of Britain was an air war, most of our armed forces
weren't directly involved in the BOB, just the RAF and their Hurricanes...
but I know what you meant. :o)  )

Charlie