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“Old soldiers never die,” goes the old U.S. Army ballad, “they just fade away.” Sometimes, that’s true. It can suit the needs of a democracy to value its armed forces when they’re serving in a theater of war but then to push them from its mind during more peaceful times. That does them a disservice, and many veterans, with good cause, feel underappreciated. However, the men and women who have served in the military have a huge amount to offer in civilian life.
America has traditionally had an ambivalent relationship with the service of veterans. On the one hand, civilian control over the military is in America’s DNA, born of tensions which ignited the War of Independence. As we saw with General James Mattis and are seeing again with General Lloyd Austin, the National Security Act 1947 prohibits a serviceman of less than seven years retired status from serving as secretary of defense: Mattis was granted a congressio