What national service taught me beyond the battlefield
Being subject to the discipline of national service means I probably expect a lot out of people and have no patience when they don’t deliver.” Years later, when my son was born, I knew, instinctively, I never wanted to see him tested one day, to win any sort of beret, nor be any old war-monger’s idea of what the definition of “best” is in relation to any man.
This week, as that old debate about national service was rolling around on social media, it awoke the ambivalence in me about the two years of my life I spent in camouflage, press-ganged into fighting a war which could not, can not, have any moral justification.
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