"Of the 5 million+ men who made up the British Armed Forces (1 in 4 of the male population) roughly half were volunteers"

Putting aside your record of absolute belief that the UK and US military have always been and still are models of rectitude, and only the enemy ever did any evil act, would you like to break that two and a half million volunteers down for us into

1. Genuine volunteers to the rank and file (exclude officers and NCOs)
2. Volunteers bullied into it by white feather merchants.
3. Volunteers considered literate by the army (i.e. able to write their own names)
4. Volunteers influenced by mates who volunteered.

There's an old army saying "A volunteer is a bloke that misunderstood the question".

I have seen nothing that proves that all, or even most, fall into category number 1, just the opinion of a genuine example of the worst kind of so called "patriot".

I love my country, but not "right or wrong", and when it's wrong I bloody well shout about it. YMMV, K A of H's certainly does.