We are a people which has been taught to shun militarism. The founding fathers abjured standing armies. they feared the rise of a military caste. The millions of immigrants who came here in the century that followed were running away from enforced military service. they taught their children to hate it. Is it any wonder that we were facing an issue that required the fullest and most thorough *exposition? Is it any wonder that our people demanded that they be shown the need for this unprecedented stepa step that had been resisted from the day George Washington himself urged that the young Republics men all receive some military training.
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