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Article: Time for academies to teach U.S. youth to wage peace.(United States Diplomatic Academies proposed)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 12, 1999
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From the window of the high school where I taught for three decades, I rarely gave a second look or thought to military recruiters stepping lively into the guidance department to encourage students to make the military their career choice.
Yet, after the Littleton, Colo., disaster, psychologists, educational leaders and media pundits have all rushed to analyze our violent nature with hardly a word said about the military connection to youth violence. It's as if a taboo was placed on criticizing our obsession with military might.
Obviously, most students don't accept the recruitment pitch, enter military service and learn to kill. But young men are very ...