Full text (worth a read I think) The Canadian Encyclopedia: Conscription
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By the fall of 1944, it became clear that the Canadian Army needed infantry reinforcements that would be created only if the government invoke conscription for overseas service. King delayed as long as he could and finally agreed that conscription had become necessary. Slightly more than 12,000 conscripts were sent overseas before the war came to an end.<br />
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conscription <br />
1382, "a putting in writing," from M.Fr. conscription, from L. conscriptionem (nom. conscriptio) "a drawing up of a list, enrollment, a levying of soldiers," from conscribere "to enroll," from com- "with" + scribere "to write" (see script). The sense "compulsory enlistment for military service" (1800) is from the French Republic act of Sept. 5, 1798. Technically, a conscription is the enrollment of a fixed number by lot, with options of providing a substitute. The verb conscript is 1813, popularized during U.S. Civil War (1862)<br />
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It is high time an end was put to the propagandistic clamourings of the meme infected with respect to our boys marched off to war so you could have the freedoms you now enjoy.<br />
Claptrap! They did no such thing! They were coerced under penalty of incarceration as well as called cowards when in reality they saw through the deceit.<br />
Those you did go had little if any thought of fighting for freedumb. Most likely their concerns were on keeping alive.<br />
Anybody out there hip to “Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo?<br />
<a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html">http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html</a> <br />
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<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."