The Huffington Post – Marshall Brown
“How do we teach civic values to young people at a time when money has thoroughly corrupted politics, where serious policy discussions have been drown out in favor of infotainments…How do we begin to bridge our economic, political, and ethnic divides, and work shoulder to shoulder to build a future we would want to all live in?…Begun by General Stanley McChrystal and first presented at The Aspen Ideas Festival in 2012, the principle is this — we all need to serve our country in some capacity…Those who serve in the military account for 1% of the population. How could the rest of us serve, and how would that help to revitalize a sense of civic duty and connection to one’s fellow Americans?…If everyone were to ‘serve’ in one capacity or another during a gap year, either before, during, or after college…many countries throughout the world have such programs of national service, a year during which one serves one’s country and community.”(more)