 welcome to the middle i'm jeremy hobson along with our house dj tolliver as always and in honor of the fourth of july we are going to dip into our middle archives for a show that i think you're going to find perfect for this occasion we're going to be talking about public service and what that means to you there are certainly a lot of ways to serve the country military service of course comes to mind roughly six percent of americans have served in some capacity in our armed forces more than 16 million people