Posted by someone on April 09, 2002 at 02:27:50:
In Reply to: Re: Having your cake and eating it too posted by Evanthia on April 08, 2002 at 21:42:30:
That's easy for you to say... tell me, would you be ok with serving in a country that you left before you were old enough to walk?
: Unfortunately many children have to pay the price of their parent's decisions. And you must understand that Greece doesn't have national service just for fun or to inconvenience its young people. Greece has hostile neighbours and unfortunately that is a terrible reality. In a perfect world Greece wouldn't have hostile neighbours and wouldn't need to impose national service, but then, the world isn't perfect is it?