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for our long time listeners we've got a returning author this week national book award winner and u.sS. Marine Corps veteran Phil Clye closed out our second season,

and now he's back reading from his essay, The Citizen Soldier, Moral Risk, and the Modern Military.

This is Phil Clyde. You're listening to Storybound. So I'm going to be reading an essay from Uncertain Ground, citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war.

And it's one of the essays that I wrote as I was trying to come to grips with what it meant to be a veteran, what it meant to be a soldier, what it meant to be an American citizen in these very sort of strange wars that we have.

Wars fought with an all volunteer force, with this tiny fraction of our country,

wars that don't seem to end.

And it's a question that I keep coming back to.

We're in a situation where we have a military presence all around the globe.

We're killing people in a number of countries,

so it's difficult to say how many, because that information is not always readily available.

And I just find it a peculiar, a morally troubling place for us to be in as a country when war is something that happens on a

kind of on a on a back burner with very little public attention very little public oversight and very

little public accountability but that doesn't mean that the sort of moral questions caused by being a

nation of war aren't still present

in things that we all need to grapple with.

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