It’s been the same in every war, ever!If you were faced with going to the front you'd be shaking like a defecating dog mate.
To actively want kids - and that's all they are at 18 and 19 - to go and throw themselves into a meat grinder is a terrible thing to want.
If older men from their mid-to-late-20s onward want to fight for their country then ok, let them do it. They've had at least some time to live a little.
Again, it’s your weird obsession with Z-man that is driving this while hiding behind stupid, pointles non-events