Did you find  President Obama's military service inspiring?  

He at least, unlike President Clinton, and Bernie (tried for Concientious Objecter status until too old for the draft) and Trump, was the beneficiary of the end of the Vietnam War'

AP  September 7, 2008 

"Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left high school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".   

"The aspiration was not mentioned in either of his two volumes of memoirs."