The World Motivation
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
“As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.”
— J. D. Vance · Army
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.
My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.
I've worked in factories, managed a restaurant and served in the U.S. Army Reserve.
In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.
We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.