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A Nation of Servants: Defining Public Service for the Twenty-first Century |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT? |
| Author: Alan W. Dowd |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 4,819 Words, 31,068 Characters |
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There is a consensus in the United States that a key ingredient of maintaining a good society is involving Americans in service to something greater than themselves. The Founding Fathers believed it. Indeed, many of them sacrificed their lives--and, most of them, their wealth--for the greater cause of America's independence and nationhood. President John F. Kennedy awoke a generation with the phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Some three decades later, President Bill Clinton declared, "Service is the spark to rekindle the spirit of democracy in an age of uncertainty." In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Washington and Manhattan, President George W. Bush challenged the American people to make "a commitment to service in [their] own ...
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...g and Volunteering in the United States in 2001," independentsector.org; "The New Nonprofit Almanac in Brief: Facts and Figures on the Independent Sector 2001," independentsector.org.
26. George Cahlink, "Army of Contractors," Government Executive, Feb. 1, 2002.
27. Kenneth Bredemeier, "Thousands of Private Contractors Support U.S. Forces in Persian Gulf," Washington Post, March 3, 2003.
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