I was in the cub scouts.....does that count?
Seriously, I wanted to join the Marines when I was 16 after my father passed away, but my mom wouldn't sign the papers; ended up going to college instead. One of the regrets in my life is that I did not do some form of military service, but it was post Vietnam and the military was looked at with much skepticism and as a place where loosers went because they couldn't do anything else.
However, I did berate my 22 year old neice for not voting in the elections.....I told her a lot of men died so that she might have that right, and that to waste it was not a good decision.
