Comments on: “Sarge” will return to Peace Corps http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/ America Deserves Our Best Thu, 17 May 2012 12:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: JD http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/#comment-85131 JD Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:00:47 +0000 http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/?p=289#comment-85131 Too many PCVs have gotten hurt, injured and even killed in the field. Studies from the GAO show that sending these kids over there tend to hurt more than help. It may be a "transformational experience" for college grads who ski in Switzerland and can barely do their own laundry, but it's at the expense of people who have to drag a helpless American around for a year and also an expense to hardworking American taxpayers who give their hard-earned money so some college kid with a BA in History can screw around in Botswana, pretending they are being helpful when they can hardly grow alfalfa in a jar. It's ridiculous. You should just have mom and dad fund your "transformational experience" or get a job at McDonald's and save up for your "eye-opening volunteerism." You're just screwing around while on the equivalent of welfare. Too many PCVs have gotten hurt, injured and even killed in the field. Studies from the GAO show that sending these kids over there tend to hurt more than help. It may be a “transformational experience” for college grads who ski in Switzerland and can barely do their own laundry, but it’s at the expense of people who have to drag a helpless American around for a year and also an expense to hardworking American taxpayers who give their hard-earned money so some college kid with a BA in History can screw around in Botswana, pretending they are being helpful when they can hardly grow alfalfa in a jar. It’s ridiculous. You should just have mom and dad fund your “transformational experience” or get a job at McDonald’s and save up for your “eye-opening volunteerism.” You’re just screwing around while on the equivalent of welfare.

]]> By: Melissa Stuart http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/#comment-83819 Melissa Stuart Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:11:13 +0000 http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/?p=289#comment-83819 Gene! It is a must, I guarantee it will only get you more excited about serving by helping you understand where this program came from and what it has been through. Happy reading! Gene!

It is a must, I guarantee it will only get you more excited about serving by helping you understand where this program came from and what it has been through.

Happy reading!

]]> By: Melissa Stuart http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/#comment-83817 Melissa Stuart Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:08:34 +0000 http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/?p=289#comment-83817 Erica, You are absolutely right! I am still trying to figure out why the American public doesn't no more about this man who, under slightly different circumstances, could have become President himself. Humility, I suppose is the answer. It's like Sen. Dodd always says. He served in the Peace Corps because his country asked him to, not for the glory. Sarge served the Peace Corps because Kennedy asked him to. Sarge served the Special Olympics because his wife asked him to. Sarge served on the School Board because someone asked him to. Right now, Obama is asking young people to serve. I hope they choose to serve in not just national service programs, but government service too. Maybe we need to start asking them to a little more. Erica,
You are absolutely right! I am still trying to figure out why the American public doesn’t no more about this man who, under slightly different circumstances, could have become President himself. Humility, I suppose is the answer.

It’s like Sen. Dodd always says. He served in the Peace Corps because his country asked him to, not for the glory. Sarge served the Peace Corps because Kennedy asked him to. Sarge served the Special Olympics because his wife asked him to. Sarge served on the School Board because someone asked him to.

Right now, Obama is asking young people to serve. I hope they choose to serve in not just national service programs, but government service too. Maybe we need to start asking them to a little more.

]]> By: Gene http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/#comment-83816 Gene Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:07:44 +0000 http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/?p=289#comment-83816 As a current applicant for the Peace Corps, I now plan to go pick up this book this weekend and can't wait to read it! Thanks for the information. -Gene As a current applicant for the Peace Corps, I now plan to go pick up this book this weekend and can’t wait to read it!

Thanks for the information.

-Gene

]]> By: Erica Burman, Director of Communications, National Peace Corps Association http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/blog/2009/03/11/sarge-will-return-to-peace-corps/#comment-83813 Erica Burman, Director of Communications, National Peace Corps Association Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:54:10 +0000 http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/?p=289#comment-83813 I knew that Sargent Shriver started the Peace Corps (there is a hardcore group of his earliest volunteers and staff members that reveres him) but until I picked up "Sarge" I had no idea of all his *other* contributions to American life: Head Start, Legal Services, his involvement with Special Olympics, serving on the Chicago School Board. What an amazing--and largely unsung--legacy of service. Thanks for this post. I knew that Sargent Shriver started the Peace Corps (there is a hardcore group of his earliest volunteers and staff members that reveres him) but until I picked up “Sarge” I had no idea of all his *other* contributions to American life: Head Start, Legal Services, his involvement with Special Olympics, serving on the Chicago School Board. What an amazing–and largely unsung–legacy of service. Thanks for this post.

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