“Boys need responsibility to become men.”
The worst thing we could have done was to get rid of the draft. Boot camp has a way of taking the child out of a young man.
So very true, at 16 was boosting cars to joyride since didn't have one of my own. Was 'forcefully urged' by juvenile authorities to enter the service and found myself on a bus heading to basic training day after my 17th birthday.
Am so glad that happened as I shudder to think how I would have ended up on the path I was taking.