during this long decade of war. we fought more war with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population taking part. there s no draft and military service is increasingly rare in elite circles in a 2010 speech at duke, secretary of defense spoke about this divide. whatever their found sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most americans, the wars remain an abstraction. a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them personally. so while the fallen exist as people we think about in the abstract, most of us don t have them in our own families. on october 10th, 2001, master sergeant evander andrews, a member of the 366 civil squadron died in a heavy equipment accident, while constructing an air strip in qatar. he was the first american casualty of operation enduring
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