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On the backs of minute men and patriots and their labor and lives.
Plenty of the elite led from the front during the revolution. The whole "only the poor fight wars" in this country thing really started during Vietnam.
Look at many of the officers in the civil war, they came from prosperous families, and company level officers and even field level officers died in droves during that fight. WWII had plenty of rich families kids fighting, hell TR's son was part of the Normandy landings, and Joe Kennedy's kids were pilots and PT boat captains.