>>>>Well said, except that I only participated in one invasion. The other times were by invitation of the host government. that'll teach me to accept an invitation! :o)
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>>>Sometimes when I get invited to a party, I say, "No thanks." ;)
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>>And sometimes there's trouble with people who don't take "no" for an answer, but take it for an offense, or even felony... to what lengths I had to go to make sure they get the message... or not get me.
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>I try not to worry too much about that. Sometimes people just don't feel like doing something that I feel like doing, and if I can accept that, then they have to be able to accept the reverse. If they can't, well, I don't see it as my problem.

It was a problem... these guys allegedly had the legal rights to ship me off into a war in which my country didn't take part. So as long as they didn't get me, it was sort of "OK until the next try" (and they tried three times), because they couldn't possibly prosecute the 80-90% of the people who just didn't want to go into the reserve again.