I am avoiding the huge arguement about the morality of war, and just want to point out something practical.  I just got back from a recruiting office and one of the soldiers pointed out something about registering for the selective service that I didn't know.  You have until you're 25 to register.  If you don't, then you miss your chance and can't ever join the army.  You may not be interested now, but don't limit your future options.  I never planned to join, but after college, it seems like a good option.  I'm looking at 20k a year, housing costs, food costs, and health insurance.  It's pretty sweet.  I'm getting married before I go to basic, so my longtime girlfriend will get to enjoy the benefits too.  This beats another year of working just to pay rent in Michigan's poor economy. 

If you're young, you will probably change your mind a lot before you settle down into middle age.  Do not limit your options now by doing something misguided on principle.  

Besides, why are you so worried about joining the military? Too worried you may have to defend America?

This is the response I expected from you.  Rambling on and on with no real information.  So, if China(hypothetical) decides to take over the earth, should we let them, because if we fight back bad things will happen?  This is what happens when you don't think about the crap you a spewing.  It makes no sense. 

The allied forces attacking Germany had to happen.  You contradicted yourself pretty severely.  You say that Nazi's had no chance of taking over the world.  Why is that?  Because, GASP, people fought back.  If nobody fought back you would have never been born. 

With your ideals, I could get about 100 guys together and conquer the earth because war is murder so we shouldn't fight back.  Nobody fights back and kills me, we take over the world.  Glad people don't think like you.

As for honorable death, if you let your wife die and you could have saved her, you are a pathetic existence of a man.  I would rather die saving my loved ones than living the life of a coward and being treated as such.  A mourning wife is much better than a dead one.  Why can't you see that?  Because you don't think, you read some crap and believed.

You tell me I'm living a childhood fantasy.  Your most likely 17 or 18 so your still a child with distorted views of the world.  I guarantee that 5 years from now if you read this post again, you'll realize how wrong you are.  Know how I know this?  I used to be your age and said stupid stuff.  You'll grow smarter and wiser, and it's great.

I realize horrible things happen in wars and wish they wouldn't, but they are isolated incidents that aren't the norm, and these people get punished when they are caught.  Just because bad stuff happens, that doesn't mean you shouldn't fight.  The internet allows smut videos of people being murdered to be viewed by all, so by your logic, we should ban the internet.  Sounds ridiculous.

Now see I calmly I replied and expressed my viewpoints without looking like rabbling lunatic?  That's wisdom baby.

@voty2000:

And no, the men who died in WWI did not die with honor. It was a pointless war. Political leaders playing games on the expense of the idiots who they governed. There were no "good guys" and "bad guys" in that war. EVERYONE was a "bad guy" then. But when it was all over the winners (allies) decided to take the frustration caused by their own stupidity by blaming it all on the losers (the Central powers, most fo all Germany), and with things like the Versailles Treaty created the climate in Germany that helped Hitler and the Nazis come to power.

Actually, Austro-Hungarians were the bad guys. They started the war when they attacked Serbia, who tried everything to prevent the war

That's if you ignore the political climate at the time, and the fact that everybody wanted a big war to start, and they were just waiting for a pretext. As I said, there were no bad guys in that war.

Doesnt chnage the fact they were the bad guys in Austrian-Serbian conflict.