Catholic vet writes for “This is Us”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/magazine/tim-obrien-this-is-us-vietnam.html

“The main difference between our wars is the absence of a draft. Your generation of combat soldiers is a generation of volunteers. That difference is a huge one, because your generation of soldiers is bearing a much heavier burden than mine did. Anyone who doesn’t want to fight and kill people, or get killed — they don’t have to. That’s a strange predicament for a republic like ours to be in….”

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