Published as:McCausland, Jeff. Who Will Sound the Call to Service? The Washington Post, July 2, 2007.For more information on the published version, Click here.

A soldier's day was once regulated by bugle calls, from morning reveille to chow call at noon to retreat at sunset and taps late at night. Thus the phrase to answer the bugle call has been used to describe citizens responding to a national threat. Those who rise to this call to defend their country are the young, and they sacrifice accordingly.

Jeffrey McCausland is a visiting professor of International Security Studies at Dickinson College.

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