Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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Duke of Sharon
2009-03-24 12:04:08

I was cheering until the point about universal national service, then I couldn’t boo loud enough. Put our young people under corrupt government control for two years of their lives? I chose to serve 5 years in the military; to force that choice on another man is slavery. My children were not born to serve the state; the state was created to serve them. My Christian ideals compel me to serve my fellow man–but he doesn’t live in Washington D.C.