960. Chickenhawks (forever!)

Tom Harper, at Bring it on:

The article (in American Legion Magazine) is a review of this book — AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from Military Service — and How It Hurts Our Country . One of the book’s two authors is the wife of a career military officer, and the other is the father of a former Marine.

My favorite quote from the article is: “For those who wave the flag and support the troops but also consider their own family exempt from service because of the wealth of better options available to them — we suggest they take the magnetic yellow ribbon off their SUV and rethink their position.”

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The article concludes with “Why don’t the elites serve? Most probably they never even consider it…the reasons may change but one thing remains constant: the expectation that military service is for the “other” and never for the most privileged.”

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