Answer:According to a Gallup poll, the military has consistently ranked above organized religious institutions, the medical system, and banks as the institution in which Americans have the most confidence. Respondents were roughly 10 times more likely to have confidence in the armed services than in big business and Congress respectively.
But this glory is rarely the reason people join the military. Stanton Coerr, a Marine officer who served in Iraq, wrote in The Federalist, “No one is in the military against his or her will. A veteran’s service in a war is significant not because we are special, but precisely because we aren’t. We volunteered, we went, we did what the nation asked.” In other words: Patriotism is a powerful incentive to join the military.(You might get killed)
