![]() ![]() ![]() not “.” Because inspiring people is noble, while conscription is despicable and wrong.Ĭommissioners talk about a “ personal commitment,” “a culture of service,” and the “overwhelming desire to serve” they’ve found among young people. Their emails, their website address expresses “”. Appointed to advise Congress on whether to end draft registration or expand it to women, and whether to force all young people to give up a year of their lives doing military or civilian “national service” for the federal government, the commissioners seem to eschew compulsion. ![]() Not even to the folks at the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service (NCMNPS). they had, instead, hoped to start enjoying. Right after our kids finally get through high school or college, slap 12 months of “service to the nation” on them to help foster appreciation for the freedom. Do your young adult children need the government to take over their lives for, say, a year, to whip them into tip-top citizenship shape?įorced service could be the new rite of passage into adulthood. ![]()
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