Adolf hitler time man of the year12/28/2022 ![]() You’ve lost relationships, spent years of your lives in extreme conditions, years apart from kids you’ll never get back, and beaten your body in a way that even professional athletes don’t understand. ![]() You stand there, deployment after deployment and fight on. The people who swore an oath to defend this nation. The only people who have sacrificed are the veterans and their families. In fact, the average citizen was asked to sacrifice nothing, and has sacrificed nothing unless they have chosen to out of the goodness of their hearts. Taxes did not increase to pay for the war. Our troops were sent to war in Iraq by a Congress consisting of 10% veterans with only one person having a child in the military. Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse. Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror. ![]() In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years. What I will say is that when a 16 year-old kid is being told that attending West Point is going to be bad for his future then there is a dangerous disconnect in America, and entirely too many Americans have no idea what kind of burdens our military is bearing. I could easily write a tome defending West Pont and the military as I did that day, explaining that USMA is an elite institution, that separate from that it is actually statistically much harder to enlist in the military than it is to get admitted to college, that serving the nation is a challenge that all able-bodied men should at least consider for a host of reasons, but I won’t. That same day two of my teachers took me aside and essentially told me the following: “David, you’re a smart guy. She was crying because she knew how hard I’d worked to get in, how much I wanted to attend, and how much I wanted to be an infantry officer. She wasn’t crying because it had been her dream for me to go there. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my admission letter. My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. I remember the day I found out I got into West Point. Some brief but very poignant (and appropriate) remarks from Gen David
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