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Tag: a very different 1%

Remember Them

By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Fri Nov 11, 2011 at 08:58:01 AM EST
Tags: United States Army (14 June 1775), United States Navy (13 October 1775), United States Marine Corps (10 November 1775), United States Coast Guard (04 August 1790), United States Air Force (18 September 1947), a very different 1% (all tags)

70% of America's youth (those between the ages of 14 and 26) are or will be disqualified from serving in the military. Of those who are qualified, 97% will choose to not serve. Overall, for one reason or another, 99% of the American population either has never served in the military or never will. This makes those who are active duty, reservists, guardsmen, veterans, and retirees, a very different 1% of the American population.

It not that tough, usually, to figure out who's currently serving in the military, even if that service is in a reserve capacity. Veterans are different. Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's alloy forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. Generally, you can't tell a veteran just by looking.