Peace Corps: A Life-Changing Experience

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Peace Corps: A Life-Changing Experience

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src="You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login" alt="" width="275" height="183" align="right"/></a>In the mid-1970s I decided to heed former President John F. Kennedy's call to serve our country by joining the Peace Corps. I avoided the Vietnam-era draft because of a medical deferment, but because I was someone who had grown up in the 1960s and was greatly affected by the idealism of that time, I determined that I would still “serve,” but in the capacity of a volunteer instead of a soldier. As it turned out, my time in the Peace Corps became one of the most memorable and rewarding experiences of my life.

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