UNITING OUR DISUNITY
There is an old adage: If you want someone to be loyal . . . ask them to do something. America needs to ask its youth to do somethingâto answer a national service call to arms and unite our dangerous disunity.
In 1932, facing the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt gathered a nation in New Deal service. In 1961, John Kennedy birthed a Presidency with: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." And after his Presidency, Ronald Reagan argued: "The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America."