Volunteer or be Drafted
If you are born into power and privilege should you take the long walk into the recruiting station to enlist in the military service when you turn the rightful age of 18 years old?
Throughout the years the poor and disenfranchised have been the ones fighting the nations battles when duty called. Through my travels around the world serving in our nation great military in the past (1980-2004s), I noticed that many nations asked and require their young adults to serve those nation in some type of civic capacity, whether it be Military or social service. Italy had a compulsory military service rule as recently as 2004 (War. Wire). Although there was some special treatment in who did what services and if they did go to the military some families and certain class of people drew the better military occupations. Nevertheless, everybody served at least one year.
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"Italy Ends Compulsory Military Service." Italy Ends Compulsory Military Service. War.wire, 29 July 2004. Web. 28 July 2015.
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