 For the United States, which barely even existed, there was no real organized draft or recruiting stations at the mall, of course. For Great Britain, at a time when the French, the Spanish, and even the indigenous people of the New World seemed a bigger threat at first, who were the soldiers sent across the sea far from home and loved ones to fight a war where even those loved ones back home might be going, we're fighting against who? Why? Heck, some of us are related to some of these people.