Why People Join The Army

Imagine being 18 years of age, with the rest of your life in the palm of your hands, and the world is yours to do with what you feel you were meant to do. When human beings hit the ripe age of 18 in this day in age, they generally either go to college, start working right out of high school, join the army, or marry their high school sweetheart. During the agonizing years of World War II, youngsters, especially young men didn’t get that opportunity of having an option, they had the mandatory duty of being drafted into the army. Could you imagine if young people of this generation were drafted into the army? What would this world be like? During World War II, young men from 18-25 had to go to the post office, register for the draft, and await patiently to know where good old Uncle Sam needed them to be. After a few months, most families started to suffer, their youth was gone, they didn’t have the workers they needed for the economy because all …show more content…
I am very sure that the consequences of the draft would be far worse now than it was even back then. There has been a big difference in war from the 60s and war to now. There is a big difference in the people and their motivations, also. For decades, people viewed war as a good thing, believed it was to protect their country from the bad guys. As time has passed on throughout the years, We the people have realized what is really going on here and the selfish agenda we must suffer at the hands of our government. We have realized that war makes money, no matter if it kills innocent people. We have learned that the reason for our troops going overseas was not to protect us from the bad guy, but for us to be the bad guys, to steal their oil, fuel, guard their poppy plants, and to control other countries by killing millions of innocent people, stealing their plants, and oil, hence the war on drugs and the war on oil have come out in the