Lottery, the only one I ever "won", for national service or military. As our society divides betweens haves and have nots, a draft would be a common shared experience and thus promote those shared values we here so much about. One of my fellow inductees was named Firestone, a boy who's trust fund had more zeros than your social security number has numbers. He probably learned more about real people from his Army time than some oil-rich kid did in his AA program, heck he may have learned that those who work are more deserving of a tax break than those who inherit. You think a draft is slavery take a look at self employment taxes, something you don't pay on unearned income, like dividends, rents, or trust payments. Oh well you know the mottos:
E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) no longer PC
In God We Trust (and by implication all others pay cash)
In youth duty was a pain, in middle age it was an honor. To those leaders who had other priorities, ie Sec of Def and the VP, your current "service" is more akin to that provide in animal husbandry between a bull and a cow.
To those that serve, those that will, and those that have, God's speed to them and their families.
jon
