Why I fight

"I fight for the men I've held in my arms, dying on foreign soil!
I fight for their wives and children, whose names I heard whispered in their last breath.
I fight for we few who did come home, only to find our country full of strangers wearing familiar faces.
I fight for my people impoverished to pay the debts of an Empire too weak to rule them, yet brands them criminals for wanting to rule themselves!
I fight so that all the fighting I've already done hasn't been for nothing!
I fight... because I must."