[Lua Buom]

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. ... A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” John Stuart Mill

Time and time again throughout the human experience, the warriors will be mocked, denigrated and shunned until the moment comes when they are once more tasked to stand in the forefront to protect those too weak and timid to protect themselves.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[sciencewriter86]

{Time and time again throughout the human experience, the warriors will be mocked, denigrated and shunned until the moment comes when they are once more tasked to stand in the forefront to protect those too weak and timid to protect themselves.}

Rudyard Kipling wrote a great poem about this once. It was about a man named Tommy Adkins.

[elteemike]

Kipling wrote a few lines on the subject:

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_tommy.htm

[elteemike]

Or this...I think of this each time I hear “Thank you for your service”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzLjkIKWH6c