If the year was 1944 would you.....

Zip · 11 May 2006 at 16:12

....sign up to the army and become a soldier?

Last year i know i wouldnt have but today i think i would, even though we know what the condisions were like on the battle field back then and the chance of being killed.

So would you sign up and fight for your country or what ever you have to fight for?

Edit: Or Join the airforce and navy.
And none of this behind the desk jobs. Im talking frontline stuff

Edit again: For those people that coment it wasnt very hard after 1944 how about i ad in the ability to join up from the beginning

Zefan · 11 May 2006 at 16:13

It wasn't a matter of "Signing up" but yes I would - it'd make me the most proud one can be bar having children.

The idea of dying on the battlefield isn't something I'm afraid of strangely, dying anywhere else yeah scary. I can't imagine a better place to die than on the battlefield.

Noxis · 11 May 2006 at 16:14

Zip said:
....sign up to the army and become a soldier?

Last year i know i wouldnt have but today i think i would, even though we know what the condisions were like on the battle field back then and the chance of being killed.

So would you sign up and fight for your country or what ever you have to fight for?

No I would not sign up and become a soldier - I would join the airforce or navy

Although I work in telecommunications so technically would be exempt :eek:

Le_Petit_Lapin · 11 May 2006 at 16:14

I would, yeah.

But I wouldnt in the present time, as I dont exactly support what Blair is doing with the army.

da_mic_1530 · 11 May 2006 at 16:15

in this day and age no

but i suspect in 1944 people would have frowned upon me not signing up for it,so i suspect i would have been pressured into doing so

wozzizname · 11 May 2006 at 16:15

Id be too old :eek:

Ransom · 11 May 2006 at 16:16

i definetly would sign up given the chance

the 40's children compared to today just dont even comprehend

Ukadder · 11 May 2006 at 16:16

Given the option I wouldn't sign up, more or less for the same reasons I wouldn't sign up now.

If made to sign up depending upon the consequences and conditions we were under (and the task to be perfomed) I probibly would sign up.

tedaC · 11 May 2006 at 16:16

i would hide in my loft

- im allergic to being shot

iCraig · 11 May 2006 at 16:18

I would sign up, but err accidentally break my leg June 5.

Zip · 11 May 2006 at 16:18

Zefan said:
It wasn't a matter of "Signing up" but yes I would - it'd make me the most proud one can be bar having children.

So the British army was conscripts?

Sorry for my ignorance, i thought the were volunteers(well they chose to sign up but got paid a tiny bit of money)
I thought you lot were the same as us

G-MAN2004 · 11 May 2006 at 16:18

I am 110% i would sign up. I would love to infact. Iv'e probably been playing too much WW2 games. MOHAA 4tw

Cueball · 11 May 2006 at 16:19

Zefan said:
It wasn't a matter of "Signing up" but yes I would - it'd make me the most proud one can be bar having children.

The idea of dying on the battlefield isn't something I'm afraid of strangely, dying anywhere else yeah scary. I can't imagine a better place to die than on the battlefield.

+1

I'd see it as an honour to serve my country during a time of great need (WWII).

kitten_caboodle · 11 May 2006 at 16:19

Nope.

Von Luck · 11 May 2006 at 16:19

1944? The war's almost over! Why aren't you over there fighting already soldier?

Tru · 11 May 2006 at 16:19

I'd sign up in a second and I'd fight alongside my Grandad to make sure those damned Gerries didn't take his legs this time! :mad:

Zefan · 11 May 2006 at 16:21

Zip said:
So the British army was conscripts?

Sorry for my ignorance, i thought the were volunteers(well they chose to sign up but got paid a tiny bit of money)
I thought you lot were the same as us

Yes, infact every single thing everyone did was towards the war effort. It's known as "Total War" where every bit of productivity be it farming or factory production is turned to prioritise the war.

Zip · 11 May 2006 at 16:21

Von Luck said:
1944? The war's almost over! Why aren't you over there fighting already soldier?

It was the year a lot of people remember

Zip · 11 May 2006 at 16:23

Zefan said:
Yes, infact every single thing everyone did was towards the war effort. It's known as "Total War" where every bit of productivity be it farming or factory production is turned to prioritise the war.

I think it was like that down here aswell.
Except our army was all volenteers and all of them chose to go fight, thats the same as WW1 aswell.
Brave lads they must have been

Zefan · 11 May 2006 at 16:23

Zip said:
It was the year a lot of people remember

It's not that much of a terrible day ( I presume you mean Operation Overlord etc?). I'd say the day (I don't know the date) that London was first bombed was a more harrowing one. If you want to remember a day even worse than that then google about what happened to Dresden.