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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 5008024, member: 75143&quot;]I think that, in general, the historical (and to a certain extent, modern) perception of “military service” is the risk of ones own life.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the whole, no one person would find themselves at mortal risk for any extended length of time; I think that looking at 5000 years of history we seem to compress “10 years of civil war” into “10 years of nonstop fights to the death.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean, I was in the AF reserve and didn’t do anything more dangerous than driving a car; I suspect most legionnaires were in the same boat.</p><p><br /></p><p>not everyday you find yourself in a WWI or II total war.</p><p><br /></p><p>we seem to have a perception that life as a whole was more violent and militaristic 3000 years ago. Maybe so, but is that any different than the past 100 years with WWI, II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc?</p><p><br /></p><p>historian in 3000 years will likely think about Americans as a war-loving people constantly fighting. But even at our height, the number of people</p><p>Actually risking lives was very very low.</p><p><br /></p><p>pretty long winded but, my point is, military =/= risk to life, but I guess that’s what you already said</p><p><br /></p><p>——it’s too late and I had too many beers tonight :/[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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