About 30 years ago, I think, I read an article in Harpers that made the same point. It was written by a Harvard grudate, and he noted how few of his classmates had served with him in Virtnam. It is not a good thing when the elites refuse to give us their children. Maybe not a new thing. McArthur was from a military family. Eisenhower and Bradley were from folks like those of the Marines the general is talking about. Patton was one of the exceptions, coming from southern aristocracy. IAC, the martial virtues are nothing to dismiss lightly. We have far too many lawyers and too few soldiers.
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"It was written by a Harvard grudate, and he noted how few of his classmates had served with him in Virtnam."
My brother was accepted to Phillips Exeter and would have gone on to Harvard, but enlisted to serve in Vietnam. I bet he doesn't know any others who attended, or would have attended, Harvard or any other Ivy League school either.