Re: Food Checkout Week

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:05 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), 
   	       	    	  Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <fq7kr7$lbg$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Keith F.
> Lynch) wrote:
>
>> > Should you visit any small town or village in Scotland or England
>> > you'll find - quite prominent - a memorial to "the Glorious Dead"
>> > of the 1914-18 war.  Read the names and you'll realise that in many
>> > cases a whole generation of that town's menfolk were wiped out -
>> > WIPED out.
>> 
>> It was monstrous and insane.  I don't understand why people drafted
>> to fight in such a war didn't turn on the people who drafted them and
>> kill them instead -- on both sides.
>
> But in the case of the pals' brigades that Jette mentioned, they
> weren't drafted, they were volunteers.  

Conscription wasn't introduced in Britain until 1916. Of course once
it was introduced it took a hell of a lot of people, willing or not,
and by the end of the war conscripts far outnumbered the volunteers.

-- 
Andy Leighton => andyl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" 
   - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_