01-14-2015, 02:18 PM
Renatus.
I do understand your point but then life can be indeed a struggle in any period of history and in fact even today where some less fortunate people are even dependant on food banks, the way people and indeed soldiers must well have known they lived in what was then an autocratic system therefore they had to become part of it in their own circles.
I myself was in the military for 22 years just about as long as any Roman soldier I would think and I have in the past also had to darn socks and learn to do make and mend, as well as being in the older age group I am indeed an octogenarian born into the older depression times but have survived.
Then where we think of the Roman soldier many might well have enjoyed the travel and seeing the world as indeed I have myself having flown all the oceans and been to so many countries that I now even forget, in fact it is sometimes better to think of where I have not been.
I still think however that a soldier is a soldier the world over and that the period that one is in is neither here nor there and life goes on, the thoughts of people in the past is not really so far removed from what we all consider today, about religion, and where the next meal is coming from.
I do understand your point but then life can be indeed a struggle in any period of history and in fact even today where some less fortunate people are even dependant on food banks, the way people and indeed soldiers must well have known they lived in what was then an autocratic system therefore they had to become part of it in their own circles.
I myself was in the military for 22 years just about as long as any Roman soldier I would think and I have in the past also had to darn socks and learn to do make and mend, as well as being in the older age group I am indeed an octogenarian born into the older depression times but have survived.
Then where we think of the Roman soldier many might well have enjoyed the travel and seeing the world as indeed I have myself having flown all the oceans and been to so many countries that I now even forget, in fact it is sometimes better to think of where I have not been.
I still think however that a soldier is a soldier the world over and that the period that one is in is neither here nor there and life goes on, the thoughts of people in the past is not really so far removed from what we all consider today, about religion, and where the next meal is coming from.
Brian Stobbs
