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Pete Buttigieg: “I think the statistic is something like 50% of the…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 39:20

And by the time the Iraq war was erupting and I was a college student when that happened, very few people who I saw, like, on the campus of Harvard were going to wind up in uniform. I think the statistic is something like 50% of the graduating class of Princeton in the 40s went directly into the military. Military, wow. Something like that. And that was the Pacific or Europe or something like that. Yeah. (39:20–39:27)

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Asserts that about 50% of Princeton's graduating class in the 1940s joined the military.

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