Individual motives will differ. Some will be high-minded idealists. Cruise the Web looking for death. Farming killed 210 people over a recent five-year period, just in Pennsylvania. According to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American male's lifetime risk of death by homicide is about equal to an American soldier's odds of getting killed during Vietnam.
Many jobs are dangerous, and life is a tragedy waiting to happen.
If idealism or machismo or money tempts someone into a dangerous life serving his country's values, if not its interests narrowly defined, his is probably a life well spent. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.