We are now engaged a war that was entered into based on lies, and carrying on long past its stated goal, yet where are the protests from our high-school and college students?

But I, like so many others my age, did not understand why we were fighting for a place called Vietnam, and more to the point, did want to be drafted and come back a drug addict, or mentally ill, like so many of my brother’s friends did.

I will admit I protested the war because I was afraid, with the draft, I would be next.

When I was in my teens, I watched with admiration the re-telling of the heroics of World War II vet, either in movies or from my father, who was a veteran of WWII and the Korean Wars.

I just sat through half of an MTV special called “The Drug Years, “ which had to be produced by a handful of twenty-somethings who never really experienced the times they were so gleefully glorifying.

While I certainly enjoyed my time in those years, I have to admit that ten years after graduating school, I remember mentioning to my older brother that more of my classmates had died from either drugs or alcohol than his eight year old counterparts.

While that may not be, in any way, a scientific sampling of anything, the ever-present war protests in the film were. We don’t have students organizing protests anything like what happened in the sixties.

On the left, we have students and bloggers crying out against the policies of Bush/Cheney, but doing little more than writing about it. Only a very small segment of musicians even mention the war in song, lest they offend their corporate masters.

On the right, we have the mellow-yellow Young Republicans. The “Jonah Goldberg Brigade," who like many of their parents who supported the Vietnam War, just cannot find the time to put that “good-life” on hold long enough to serve.

Does the all-volunteer army give our kids an reason not to be involved, and the warmongers refuge, as demonstrated by Mitt Romney’s recent explanation of his five sons lack of service as “they have chosen not to serve?"

If everyone had to serve two-years of National Service, would we have less people cheerleading for a war they’ll never fight, and more people fighting against a war we never needed?