我还告诉他，早在乔治敦上大学时我就研究过征兵制度，并得出结论，只有像在第二次世界大战，我们的国家和生活方式处于危险境地的情况下，这种制度才是正当的。

I also told him I had studied the draft at Georgetown, and had concluded it was justified only when, as in World War II, the nation and our way of life were at stake.

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法国从1996年开始分阶段实行的调查显示，男性教育上的成就在征兵停止后下降了——因为人们曾为了躲避征兵而去上大学。

Research in France, which began phasing out conscription in 1996, suggests that male educational achievement fell: people used to dodge the draft by going to university.

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