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Ratty Roach-Driven Stories Not Written to Mom Regarding Peace Corps and War

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If your genes came out in America, you're very lucky. Perhaps we owe something more to the world in gratitude. Shouldn't we, who live here, be doing a lot more at home and abroad?

If you remember and do one thing from this story, I hope it is this. Google "American World Service Corps Congressional Proposal" and pester your congressperson to introduce and enact the AWSC Congressional Proposal that would grow the Peace Corps, and other do-good organizations, to the size Kennedy and Shriver wanted it to be by establishing a robust million-strong AWSC National Service program.

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Dwayne served in the Peace Corps in the slums of Mumbai, India, worked several Habitat Projects, and was on the start-up team of the California Conservation Corps. He has a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, has been a builder, teacher, (more...)
 

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