That is why this situation bothers me so much.
I think about how many other people, of all races and economic stations in life, got that leg up on success in life because of what the military service they had imparted on them.
And I think of how that has benefited our country, and how many people are missing out on both making our military better and improving their lives.
A civil society builds from, and depends upon, the actual love in enough people - that other people respect, enough.
Liberty requires that, plus knowing:
We only have the rights that we are able to defend.
We are only as free as we make the effort to know why.
The sum total, is unknown by 89 percent of people who are foreign to our nation. Whether or not they visit; and regardless of their socio-economic status.
Meaning, they do not know how to establish, what our Founding Fathers built with the help of God.
A friend of mine who spent decades touring the world - impoverished areas, also deep in practically every existing jungle - teaching people, agreed, that there are people who have never been to America, but dream of it, on the basis of the principles.
The people not here, but have America in their hearts.