"Subject: RE: Songs about the Great War
From: Santa
Date: 10 May 05 - 03:17 PM

I read recently that when they went back they arrived in a new country that ostracised them for "fighting for England". Not the first nor the last servicemen to find public attitudes very different at the end of a war from at the start.

Possibly, of course, it was even more prominent in the new nations formed out of the Austro-Hungarian empire?"

I was replying to this.
Things were different, because nobody had a choice really about joining.
A possible exception are the Jews (including a few ancestors), they fought, but can't remeber if it was conscription or volunteering