September 20, 2007
'Time': Promoting National Service
To build on American citizens' growing desire to volunteer, the federal government should establish a comprehensive system of national service, says Richard Stengel in a Time magazine cover article (September 10).
"Devoting a year or more to national service, whether military or civilian, should become a countrywide rite of passage, the common expectation and widespread experience of virtually every young American," Mr. Stengel says, adding that such a program could "create a
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