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Managing Editor Richard Stengel is right: Americans are hungry to be asked to do something [Sept. 10]. During World War II, we all were asked to do something, and we did. Back then, we were joined in a common cause. Today there is a void. We need to resurrect a sense of obligation to our country besides taxes and voting. One way to help accomplish this would be to institute a draft. Everyone should be obligated to serve the country in some fashion. Maybe then we would stop identifying ourselves with narrow labels such as liberal, conservative, Democrat and Republican...
...dubious help of state and federal governments. Significant growth of volunteerism and the proliferation of nonprofit start-ups are good signs that people have already found avenues for service without burdensome bureaucracy or tax-funded carrots. Even if a national-service system ends up costing only the relative pittance Stengel cited, the cost would be in addition to those of the Iraq war and federal prisons, not in their stead. Whether through conscription, graduation requirements or bonds funded by income or corporate taxes, a national-service system would be a drain on everyone and would cheapen the sacrifice of those...
...wholeheartedly support Stengel's call for national service. I have written my Representatives proposing an idea, to no avail. I suggest that instead of creating elaborate laws to solve the problem of illegal immigration, we should require that illegal aliens spend a year in national service--defending the country in the military, rebuilding infrastructure or combating climate change in a green corps--to become eligible for citizenship...
...the 5-ft. 6-in. (1.68 m) shortstop listened to manager Casey Stengel, who told him he'd be a better shoeshine boy than ballplayer when he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Phil Rizzuto would not have won seven World Series rings, the American League MVP award in 1950 or election to the Hall of Fame. The Yankee great, nicknamed Scooter, then found his voice as a folksy, rambling and partisan Yankee announcer, calling games until...
...Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR