Why Was Conscription Activated?

It is now customary to recite the national oath before every class, which was new but easy to forget, for it failed to spark patriotic or nationalistic feeling within its reciters. For now, my thoughts were on my family. A multitude of questions swarmed my head, Why was conscription activated? What happens when I turn sixteen? What about my parents, will my dad go into the army? Questions I would fortunately never know the answer to. On the journey home I overheard people discussing possible ways to leave the country. I always thought that nobody ever left, they lived and died where they were born and it was how life worked. The two men were in front of me, so I maintained a suitable distance between myself and them so it would not look like