In his Opinion Editorial, Keith Barratt discusses his period of public service in the United Kingdom. That experience returned to him as he watched Lurita Doan give her testimony and he was compelled to react.

"I do know that today I listened to Lurita Doan give evidence during the U.S. Congressional hearing on the General Services Administration and I was both shocked and angry by what I heard: truly shocked, but most of all angry, because Ms. Doan represented a critical part of what I have done in my life, and she shamed me and shamed many of those like me.

"Ms. Doan is a person from the private sector who has been brought into government to head up an agency, an agency that by all accounts was inefficient and failing in many regards."

What does the term Public Servant mean to us? Read Barratt's The term "public service" has lost meaning for Americans. What are your thoughts?

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