The people who fought most effectively for my freedom are almost none of them soldiers, though their enemies often were. Some didn't even need to fight, such was their influence: Christ, Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, William Wilberforce, John Stuart Mill, Louis Riel, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Martin Luther King, John, Robert and Ted Kennedy, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Hume, to name a very few. The list is long, thick, and hopefully will continue until there is no further need. Our servicemen and women are certainly fighting for something - I'm just not sure freedom or democracy are the right words for it. Let's keep working for a better tomorrow. Cheers! P.S. Try voting for that Obama guy. He seems nice.