"Platoon ranks open, march!"

These aren’t really members of the Marine Corps… they are high school students in the Junior ROTC…

(Click heels, then turn and walk, then click again.)

Shot of salute and cap fixing.

VO: 86 cadets signed up for the class this semester… They proudly wear the uniform to Winacunnet High School once a week…

Standing tall shots

VO: But since September 11^th, these teen-agers just might be standing a bit taller…

Staff Sgt. John J. Evans/Jr. ROTC cadet

Sgt. SOT: "You get a much better image wearing the uniform after this because everyone is so patriotic right now."

1^st Lt. Chad Brubaker/Jr. ROTC cadet

1^st Lt. SOT: "I felt proud. I think that would be the best word. To know that in some way I am somehow related to our effort against the terrorists."

B-roll: cadets

Full nat sound: "March!"

VO: Most of the cadets are not yet 18, but soon, all the young men must sign up for selective service…and they are proud to do it.

Staff Sgt. Michael W. Johns/Jr. ROTC cadet

Staff Sgt. SOT: "I feel I can make a difference and help the country and if I didn’t , then I think it would kind of be a waste, and everybody else is being patriotic, I figure it’s my turn."

2^nd Lt. Leland Kellar/Jr. ROTC cadet

2^nd Lt. SOT: "I think because of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S., I think we all owe something to the country and to those that came before us to help defend it."

VO: The Commander-in-Chief says no draft will be needed for this new war. Military ranks are full, recruits are enlisting, there’s even a surge in re-enlistments… but it’s heartening to veterans to know today’s young Americans are willing to fight for their country.

Dr. Drew Breuder/Air Force veteran

Dr. Breuder SOT: "Obviously, in the Vietnam War, there was a lot of division among the populace. The ROTC program at Boston University was thrown off campus."

B-roll of son leaving father to run onto football field.

VO: Vietnam veteran, Dr. Drew Breuder, takes time away from his job as Chief of Staff at the V.A. Medical Center in Manchester to watch his son, Philip at football practice.

B-roll of practice

Full nat sound: "To the right, to the right, to the right!" (sound of running)

VO: Dr. Breuder has 9 children, 6 of them boys…including 17-year-old Phil.

Full nat sound: (whistle)

VO: And this teenager admits…high school talk today includes serving the country…

Phil Breuder

Phil SOT: "There’s been talk about a draft and how some of us would feel about that. I think it’s great a lot of the kids, they’re enthusiastic about it. They’d want to serve their country."

Dr. Breuder

Dr. Breuder SOT: "I don’t think I’d have any real personal fears for their safety. I mean it’s part of military life - - training and equipment that are available today are much better than they were 30 years ago."

VO: And Phil, like his father, says he would be willing to go to war."

Phil Breuder

Phil SOT: "Everyone’s going to die sometime…might as well be for something you know."

B-roll football practice

Full nat sound: "Hut!" (slamming football bodies)

Dissolve from football footage to ROTC training

VO: From one New Hampshire high school to the next…

Full nat sound: "Fall out!" "Aye, sir!" "Aye, sir!"

ROTC B-roll

Jean Mackin, WMUR News 9.