Yellowstone tourist ignores warning signs, walks off boardwalk, dies in hot spring

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168. Fwiw, you served by my definition. And exactly that there

are many ways to serve one's nation, but the kicker is that for me to call it service I want a serving of a genuine goal that benefits the nation, not only oneself or war industry profit margins.

That said, I don't think I'd tell a forklift operator laboring through Persian Gulf summers to help protect Saudi Aramco oil wells that I considered that just a job because he really signed up as a "respectable" way to abandon his wife and kids and resume his bachelor life. He might be seeing himself as quite noble in his suffering and not take it well.

I'm going to stop babbling over this. I'm just allergic to the patriotic Kool-Aid so many serve up to our kids and won't touch that pitcher, or enable the kind of romantic self-delusion that can land a clueless kid who just wanted help becoming a man in a grave instead. I want them to sign up with their eyes wide open.