I remember once my friend told me his dad told him that we are not in an age of hero‘s. When that time comes... many will be born.
It is something i also feal i was MEANT to do. When people/ friends ask my why i would want to join the army let alone the CANADIAN army what can i say... im still in high school... what i want to tell them is honor. I will do this work so you can enjoy your everyday lives, raise children, and let those children have children. But usually all i do is just look em‘ in the eye... although latley ive been getting braver and braver to the point where i said somebodies got to do it
To these people who wonder why id join honor is an ancient thing to them. Something to laugh about. Some would say thats a disgrace. Some would really hate that... i just say the soldiers must be doing an EXCELLENT job if unlike the middleages honor isnt present EVERYWHERE.
I feal almost really that i was born with this fealing... although really it was probably from the long camping trips we would go on and how i would carry loads of stuff up hiking trails for hours without complaining and in the end, having my dad tell me how proud he was. And giving comments like - " what a paratrooper ".
AND I must add from books and T.V. shows, movies, and yes MMORPG games... in these games i SERIOUSLY DO NOT have it in me to RP a bad person.. (i ALWAYS must be sumone of honor... if something dishonorable needs to be done... it is done indirectly by giving hints of what i would like
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From RTS games such as my first one War Craft... Seeing those footmen march fearlessly in to battle for somthing they belived in and new was right for the greater good, they gave everything. From the WW2 movies and WW1 stories.
I mean i swear. I could muster the courage to march to **** itself and stop death, plague pestilence right at its hart. I swear to you on my honor if that chance came I would take it.
But Mostly... For the people EVERYWHERE around the world that could use a good hero by there side.. i see no reason to stay here when i could be protecting people in congo or anywhere else around the world... in my eyes there are NO nations... only people... like me or you, who did not have the luxury of chance to be born here.
Really. Its preety personal why most join. Given more time to think i could come up with more. I mean i find it... craven is the word i guess when i see pics like CFL Lui where it says " WTF AM I DONG HERE! I ONLY JOINED FOR THE COLLEGE MONEY " or when people say " Why are you going to fight THERE war" every war is OUR war, as a race. Martin Luther King Jr. once said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
Im sure CFL Lui is a good soldier though
So yes... i guess im going to join to be a hero. And yes i know... Heros are not choosen, it just happens. No one chooses to be a hero. Well... really i guess i disagree with that, Cause you really do.