Militia And Solider Essay

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Militia and Solider Obviously, militia and solider have different meaning, but some point of those two words are very similar. Like a militia and solider both armored, and have ability to fight in a war. But after we checked the dictionary and the website , we can see that the meaning of militia is changing all the time ,and the meaning of militia is different in different countries. According the Oxford English Dictionary, “Militia” is Nonprofessional Solider, organize by themselves, the body of soldier in service of a sovereign or a state. Subsequently: a military force raised from the civilian population of a country or region, ,esp.to supplement a regular army in an emergency, freq.as distinguished from mercenaries of professional …show more content…

And we know that the militia was not this meaning during the America Revolution.
The so called militia took over the government. The just use violence to show off their powers. And I believe that is very cowardly behavior. I once learned that, the real powers man never use violence to manifest how capable they are. Because violence never makes people surrender willingly. Back to 1770s and 1780s, the American militia is group of young men who armored and help the neighbors to protect their property away from the war and help US army to fight against the England army. And even in the WWII, the militia is the important part of the US army. In another country, the militia is still mean “militia”, for example, in Australia and China, the militia is exceedingly important for the country, the militia is the formal solider or the people who have been trained as a solider, they have ability to protect people around them when the war happened, and the militia also is the professional disaster relief team when natural hazard happened.(Like the Wenchuan Earthquake in

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