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Right Now, America Doesn't Ask Us To Do Anything Besides Pay Taxes. We Don't Even Have To Vote. But As Psychologists Will Tell You, When You Have To Sacrifice For Something, You Value It More. What About National Service For Young People? Everybody Between 18 And 24 Could Spend A Year Or Two Working For This Country In Some Capacity. It'd Be An Amazing Thing. And It Would Mix This Country Racially, Culturally, Economically.

No Matter How Many People You Kill, Using A Machine Gun In Battle Is Not A War Crime Because It Does Not Cause Unnecessary Suffering; It Simply Performs Its Job Horrifyingly Well.

I Think Objectivity Is Like This Strange Myth That People Think You're Supposed To Achieve, But Actually, The Dirty Little Secret Is That It's Not Attainable Any More Than Pure Justice Is Attainable By The Courts.

War Affected My Family A Lot, And I Was Quite Curious About It. I First Went Off To War In The Early 90's As A Journalist, Partly Out Of Curiosity And Partly Because I Needed A Career. War Reporting Has Been Very Glamorous And Exciting, And Everything Else That Young Men Like.

In My Eyes Marlantes Has Become The Pre-eminent Literary Voice On War Of Our Generation. He Is A Natural Storyteller And A Deeply Profound Thinker Who Not Only Illuminates War For Civilians, But Also Offers A Kind Of Spiritual Guidance To Vets Themselves. As This Generation Of Warriors Comes Home, They Will Be Enormously Helped By What Marlantes Has Written. I’m Sure He Will Literally Save Lives.