Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for.. Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders. Sebastian Junger
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When a person is willing to pay the ultimate price of suffering and death, it shows they really believe in what they are doing. Soldiers are willing to die for the country they serve. That is what society should be asking for, for any job it asks its citizens to do.

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