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Are these guys in it just to test their skills or to fight for a just cause?
If I was a lot younger without a family I'd consider it for the adventure but I'd want to get some gold coin too for risking my life!
"Why were the foreigners there? Some were escaping life back home. Others were old soldiers, trying to fill a void. A few just had delusions of grandeur. They came for the feeling of solidarity, or adventurism, or they came to fulfill a childhood fantasy, to act out some violent adolescent emotion. The youngest fighter was 19, and the oldest, I was told, was 66, a former English teacher from Canada named Peter Douglas. The veterans hoped to kill ISIS fighters and train the locals as they had been trained in the Marines or the Army. The civilians, among them a surf instructor and a philosophy student from the University of Manchester, wanted to learn what they could. They hoped their stamina was enough."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/m...an-vigilantes-who-are-fighting-isis.html?_r=0
If I was a lot younger without a family I'd consider it for the adventure but I'd want to get some gold coin too for risking my life!
"Why were the foreigners there? Some were escaping life back home. Others were old soldiers, trying to fill a void. A few just had delusions of grandeur. They came for the feeling of solidarity, or adventurism, or they came to fulfill a childhood fantasy, to act out some violent adolescent emotion. The youngest fighter was 19, and the oldest, I was told, was 66, a former English teacher from Canada named Peter Douglas. The veterans hoped to kill ISIS fighters and train the locals as they had been trained in the Marines or the Army. The civilians, among them a surf instructor and a philosophy student from the University of Manchester, wanted to learn what they could. They hoped their stamina was enough."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/m...an-vigilantes-who-are-fighting-isis.html?_r=0