Nice idea, but it'll never fly... I mean, sans exceptions...
But yes, it would make the prospect very real to people on the fence about matters or who are foam flecked, fury spitting, brainstem thinking "armchair warriors" with no intent of ever putting realities of this war before them other than by pure ideologies.
They would be chastened... by fear, by cowardess, by crapping their pants and having to sit in it...