BONE SPURS & BUM KNEES
Veterans Day, 11/11/19
I wonder how many veterans are alive today. The number will lessen each year of course because of our volunteer military. I’m a strong advocate of compulsory public, not necessarily military, service of a least one, preferably two years after high school. It will never happen because most parents want their kid on the fast track to success, straight to college, then grad school, then a sweet job, marriage and grandkids. No deviation from that path even for the good of the country, not to mention the good of the kid. Think about it: kids sit behind a desk for 13 straight years and then are shuffled into another 4 or more years of the same. They need a break. They also can use a year or two of maturing out from under the eye and jurisdiction of mom & pop.
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