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no, they're not selling out, they are carrying out the oath they took to defend our country. it's not up to them, nor can it ever be, to choose when they fight.if they became a soldier first and then the order comes. what are they to do?
the real hero acts with personal integrity and says no i will not do this. the personal sell out blindly marches off to battle.
they don't march blindly. many don't agree with the wars they have to fight. but they do it because they are soldiers, and that's what soldiers are supposed to do. unfortunately, sometimes we don't see a war as just or necessary, but that has nothing to do with the men and women who are called to fight that war.
to believe otherwise is to demean their service. you and i have the freedom we do today because somebody died for it, without question. we have to remember that.