With public attention so understandably riveted on the economy, job prospects and the latest spate of scandals, it is perhaps like Don Quixote tilting at windmills to ask that some attention of policymakers be devoted to the Peace Corps. This unique U.S. government organization turned fifty years old in 2012, but aside from the two or three thousand celebrants who came for meetings in Washington, hardly anyone else noticed. And some might even ask, “Why should they?”