[M-cubed]

Shouldn't somebody alert wake-up Charlie Rangel ?" <<... this is one of the few things I agree with Rangel on....IMHO under the current volunteer system, we have in affect....the poor defending the rich!.... we have "exempted" the rich from the patriotic duty of defending the Republic....over time I fear it will create a sub class of "warriors" in which the "rich and entitled" will control for their own special interest, without any consequences to themselves...if you talk to kids nowadays, you find a lot of them devoid of any feelings of patriotic duty to defend this Republic precisely because they have grown up in this volunteer system....They reason...why risk death when you can avoid it by simply not volunteering....leave it up to somebody else...over time I fear the current system will create an entitlement mentality or right, in which there is no personal sense of obligation or duty to preserve the Republic...Something to think about as to the big picture of the Republics future....

[Robert A Cook PE]

Seems like the numbers in the story show EXACTLY the opposite: Rural/suburban/"outside the inner city" people (all races!) are joining, and dying, in greater rates than than simple proportions by race would indicate.

Patriotism IS alive, as long as you look outside the liberal cities/blue counties where the voters are bred (and trained) to hate America and capitalism by their liberal masters.