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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 591215" data-attributes="member: 12570">Re: Obamanation here today&nbsp; Over, these are both excellent points and I debated these in my head while typing my post and, now that I think about it, I would have to agree with you on the part about women also serving but would disagree on the secondary education point, although your argument about separation of the classes does have a lot of merit.&nbsp; I will take my own children as examples.&nbsp; My daughter was an excellent student who went straight to colllege and, after a year of teaching, is in grad school working toward her masters degree.&nbsp; I think compulsory service in her case would have been a disservice.&nbsp; My son, on the other hand, is an average student who also went straight to college but chose instead to party on Mommy and Daddy&#039;s dime.&nbsp; He is now living at home with me and paying for college himself (it&#039;s amazing how much more seriously they take it when they are paying for it themselves!) and doing quite well.&nbsp; Compulsory military service would have done him a world of good.&nbsp; It would have provided him with the structure and discipline he does not possess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 591215, member: 12570"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] Over, these are both excellent points and I debated these in my head while typing my post and, now that I think about it, I would have to agree with you on the part about women also serving but would disagree on the secondary education point, although your argument about separation of the classes does have a lot of merit. I will take my own children as examples. My daughter was an excellent student who went straight to colllege and, after a year of teaching, is in grad school working toward her masters degree. I think compulsory service in her case would have been a disservice. My son, on the other hand, is an average student who also went straight to college but chose instead to party on Mommy and Daddy's dime. He is now living at home with me and paying for college himself (it's amazing how much more seriously they take it when they are paying for it themselves!) and doing quite well. Compulsory military service would have done him a world of good. It would have provided him with the structure and discipline he does not possess. [/QUOTE]

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