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Originally Posted by NoRoadtrippin
It used to be that, rather than being able to avoid service based on your socioeconomic status, a young, healthy American male was expected to recognize a greater obligation in relation to the greater benefit the freedoms and opportunity this country had offered him. There was a time that public service was expected in proportion to your own wealth and status, and it was a positive relation, not an inverse one.
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We're talking about America, right? When was that exactly?