Military service or lack thereof should never disqualify any American from seeking or holding public office. If a person has the desire to run for office and to commit to what I am sure is a long and taxing struggle on themselves on their family to do so, then that in and of itself at least in my humble opinion shows a love of country that many do not have and has my respect even though I may not agree with them politically. I would say however, that having served in the Military a person running for President would be better qualified to understand what it is to send young people in harms way and what that means not only to them, but also to their families and loved ones. It's one thing to feel for those young people in that situtation but it's a whole other thing to have lived it. In so doing that would in my humble opinion give a President pause to make the right decision when it comes to commit young Americans to battle or long deployments in defense of this great nation and be less prone to take the gung ho, shoot first and ask questions later approach that so many without that experience might tend to have.
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Most of my friends wanted to take the year off and goof around or just got jobs somewhere, the Military is more fun to talk about as a teenager than it is to actually go join as a man.
