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...Each soldier keeps his or her weapons in the private home...
...past, a nationally drafted militia kept the cantons from raising armies against each other. But it quickly became enshrined as the ultimate symbol of solidarity and subsidiarity. As Dr. Sabine Mannitz at the Peace Institute Research Frankfurt (PRIF) writes, “the Swiss concept of the citizen-soldier aims at the lowest possible degree of institutionalising military structures and at a maximum of immediate democratic control.” Compulsory militia service, the obligation to defend the polity on equal share, is the other side of the coin of semi-direct democratic participation rights. If you have equal decision...
...When asked if the Allies' effort was worth the estimated 20 million lives lost, Harry Patch, 111, the last surviving British veteran of World War I, replied, "It wasn't worth one." Patch died just days after fellow British WW I soldier Henry Allingham, 113, passed away...
...about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?' SARAH PALIN, former Alaska governor, advising members of the press on how to treat her successor...
...famous Cindy Sheehan—who holds George W. Bush personally responsible for the death of her soldier son—learned this the hard way when she came to town earlier this summer to stir up her usual ruckus outside the former president’s new Dallas home. As Bush’s house sits at the end of a cul-de-sac, Sheehan couldn’t get closer than the top of the street, and the neighborhood’s expansive green lawns and wide driveways absorbed her group’s attempts at charismatic exhortation...