I found it sad simply because we now have soldiers dying on foreign battlefields who were only children when our government - speaking for the will of the major

I found it sad simply because we now have soldiers dying on foreign battlefields who were only children when our government - speaking for the will of the majority at the time - decided to get into these conflicts. We now have soldiers dying for a war that they were too young to understand or debate about whether they should enter it at that time. So even if a young man or woman wants to enter the military with the ideal to serve their country, but not necessarily on the old battlefields of the last decade, he or she really has no choice. Either you enter the military and sign on to the fact that you may enter a war that you had no say in or you choose a different path in life. For some, that could be a difficult, sad position to be in. When they lose their life, it's even sadder.