> Well the Swiss have universal military service and you used to get to bring
> your gun home. (I think you still do.) So all males, and today even many
> females, in Switzerland serve in the armed forces. (If we in the U.S. were
> allowed to take home our machine guns after serving in the armed forces
> universal military service would probably be much more respectable.) So to
> answer your question it would be very hard to find even one Swiss citizen
> who doesn't have a grandparent with a military background.
You're right, of course, and not at all pedantic. I should have remembered that.
This leads us to a rather useless philosophical question. How should we approach the question of universal military service, and specifically resistance to it? Presumably we can all agree that it's preferable to the non-universal kind which is its most common alternative.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."