warning: joke in arguably bad taste

One of my last popular posts on Facebook, after the quip won excellent responses from the live test audience of my cadre, was: "If you see a soldier sleeping, do not wake him; perhaps he dreams of freedom..."

Over a decade later, I might caution myself that in English, a more accurate word than "soldier" might be "conscript", although some on the site might claim that mercenaries are often more like a conscript indentured by capitalism, than like voluntary traders in a free and efficient market.