McCHRYSTAL, BRIDGELAND: Want to strengthen America? Require a year of national serviceAt a moment when America is at war abroad and divided at home, it is time to embrace a simple but powerful idea: every young American between the ages of 18 and 28 should be required to give at least one year of service to the nation.
The United States today asks remarkably little of its citizens in return for the blessings of liberty.
Fewer than 1% of Americans serve on active duty in the armed forces. Sacrifice fades from national consciousness, and decisions about war and peace are made by leaders who have little connection to those who fight. The distance between the nation and those who defend it grows wider. And in such a system it becomes easier to believe that service to the country is someone else’s duty............................
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