 decades now hundreds and hundreds of years and that's what has made america stand different than any other nation in the world and it's for that freedom that it's like that the numbers are fascinating too because it's like less than one percent of americans have ever risen the right hand and served and it's that few people that uh the debt of our country owes so much and uh it's just kind of interesting how few people have served and uh safeguarded our freedoms