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The Itch to Serve: And how one 40-year-old scratched it.(serving in a military auxiliary)
There are a lot of 40-year-old soldiers in the movies: Tom Hanks, for example, in Saving Private Ryan. But that's about as close to the military as most guys my age have ever gotten. I'm 40 years old. Over the course of my life, no matter what age I was, I must have known hundreds of people my age. In all that time, I've known only two who served in the military: My friend Mark was in the Navy in the early Eighties; another friend, Paul, was in the Army. That's it.
In my father's generation, of course, everybody served. If my dad were alive today he'd be 87, so he was a World War II guy. He was in the Army, stationed down South, never went overseas. His brothers ...
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