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by bell-cot 1005 days ago
Ignoring the combat-duty service records of President Theodore Roosevelt and his sons, President George Bush Sr., President John F. Kennedy and his brothers, etc., etc. - did you notice that I specified service in front-line ground combat battalions, in places where major wars seems all too likely to start?

Major wars might be far less likely if America's ruling classes felt that they had some real skin in the game, and people they cared about could easily get killed.