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Kat Lonsdorf over at NPR has spent the last few weeks trying to answer a question that is both

simple and very complicated. What is it like to be a member of the National Guard these days?

I live in D.C., so there are 2,300 National Guard troops right now in the city,

and they are walking around the sidewalks with me and all the rest of the folks in D.C.

You see them pretty much every single day.

Kat sees them, but she can't talk to them, mostly because they won't talk to her.

In fact, Kat had to travel all the way to Ohio to get Guard members to open up.

I've only just started finding National Guard members, honestly, who will speak.

I think it's been, you know, all of us has happened both quickly and not, right?

And so I think a lot of National Guard members are coming to a point where they really are

grappling with what's happening right now and thinking about starting to talk.

Kat was looking to connect with Guard members who'd faced a choice.

Deploy to an American city, a place like Washington, D.C., or Los Angeles, or refuse.

The people she found had decided to stay home.

It's a legitimate thing that they're thinking through, and the voluntary directive has come

to their unit. They just haven't taken it. But, you know, those deployments are voluntary

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