Vets' preference.

• Author: Burke, William M.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the Editor

As Charles Peters noted in "Tilting at Windmills," people with past military service are rare not only among the members of Congress but also among their family members. But there may be a cure--institute a veterans preference system (the type we vets used to get civil-service jobs after World War II) for high elected and appointive offices. A veterans' preference of, say, 7 percentage points in congressional elections would do wonders for our enlistment figures, and it would forestall such scandalous situations as last year's...