Wonderful piece Brother. I was taking with an A Officer with whom I'm friendly with today about ours being a family business. He being of Scotts-Irish heritage and my family's enlisted service stretching back to the Mayflower.
I share your father's hope of something more for my son, but the call to arms and the Hero's journey is part of the DNA of every young man. I'm the end he'll have to make that decision.
I'm hopeful for small towns, even knowing for 80 years we've told our best and brightest that the City is where dreams are made. The reality of most small towns is slow death while trying to deal with drug addiction, and being overrun by illegals. Much work to be done for sure, but the bones are still there for a rural recovery if not Renaissance.
A good piece on lineage in small town America. Missouri is pretty similar. Almost every town is like this once you get outside the liberal centers of the I-70 corridor, though even Columbia has monuments to its war veterans. Mizzou college has a massive Gothic monument dedicated to the students and professors who died during WWI right in the middle of campus.
Wonderful piece Brother. I was taking with an A Officer with whom I'm friendly with today about ours being a family business. He being of Scotts-Irish heritage and my family's enlisted service stretching back to the Mayflower.
I share your father's hope of something more for my son, but the call to arms and the Hero's journey is part of the DNA of every young man. I'm the end he'll have to make that decision.
I'm hopeful for small towns, even knowing for 80 years we've told our best and brightest that the City is where dreams are made. The reality of most small towns is slow death while trying to deal with drug addiction, and being overrun by illegals. Much work to be done for sure, but the bones are still there for a rural recovery if not Renaissance.
Keep up the great work.
Great piece - I always make an effort to check out memorials like this when in a small town
A good piece on lineage in small town America. Missouri is pretty similar. Almost every town is like this once you get outside the liberal centers of the I-70 corridor, though even Columbia has monuments to its war veterans. Mizzou college has a massive Gothic monument dedicated to the students and professors who died during WWI right in the middle of campus.