[Grut]

...remember that a citizen military, that is draftees and reservists, is characteristic of Republics.

Cincinnatus hears that he's needed and casts his plow aside; that's a long way from Rome's leaders saying: "No sweat, when we need him that turkey'll volunteer...."

[Iris7]

Cincinnatus hears that he's needed and casts his plow aside; that's a long way from Rome's leaders saying: "No sweat, when we need him that turkey'll volunteer...."

We have all experienced this. Our sacrifice held as nothing important, just cogs in the machine, and we are left with nothing but the purity of our hearts and the memories of the dead.