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Home Front: Culture Wars
Another reason to like Marines
2008-08-22
Peter Robinson, National Review
(Emphasis added.)

In Hanover, New Hampshire this past June, two young men received commissions as officers in the United States Marine Corps the day before they graduated from Dartmouth College. The Marines? Why not Wall Street? Or law school? Or any of the other lives of comfort and status so readily available to graduates of the Ivy League?

"We reject the pernicious belief, commonly held at our most highly esteemed institutions, that fighting our nation's battles is someone else's job."

For more by second lieutenants Michael Knapp and Ethan Mefford, look here.
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