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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5150627" data-attributes="member: 35909"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_sade#Early_life_and_education" target="_blank">A bard of literature and philosophy</a>: "...then pursued a military career, becoming Colonel of a Dragoon regiment, and fighting in the Seven Years' War."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" target="_blank">Another writer</a>: "...before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I; he was seriously wounded and returned home within the year.  ...after World War II, during which he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis#Military_service_and_mother.27s_death_.281958.E2.80.9360.29" target="_blank">What kind of singing Bard would ever fight in battle, though, right?</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkein#World_War_I" target="_blank">I mean, surely none of the Bards that inspired the creation of the fantasy genre ever did anything like that</a>.Maybe when I have free time, I can find some more examples.  If those aren't enough, though, you're probably beyond convincing anyway.</blockquote>