Why Veteran Volunteering Matters for the Next 250 Years America’s next 250 years, it’ll be protected by people who show up—on purpose—when it’s easier to stay home. Veterans already know what “service” really means: doing the job when it’s hard, when it’s inconvenient. Volunteering is how we keep that service alive in war and peacetime. Veterans are the nation’s “muscle memory” for unity. In uniform, you learn to work with people you didn’t choose—different backgrounds, diffe