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A Call, And An Answer
Swearing allegiance to the Constitution of the United States in Hanover, New Hampshire this past June, two young men received commissions as officers in the United States Marine Corps the day before they graduated from Dartmouth College. The Marines? Why not Wall Street? Or law school? Or any of the other lives of comfort and status so readily available to graduates of the Ivy League? 'We ...
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Re: A Call, And An AnswerThe Corner on National Review Online
From a reader: Dear Mr. Robinson, I'm an avid reader of The Corner, and I enjoyed very much your post today, 'A Call, and An Answer', about the two newly-commissioned Marines who just graduated from Dartmouth. I myself am headed into my second year as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, where I am studying Classics & English. I'm an American citizen - making my undergraduate ...