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During my tours in Iraq, the Marines I led asked me a lot of questions, from big things like what rocket to use to small things like how to send a postcard to their family.
But there was one question that was the hardest: “Sir, why the hell are we risking our lives for this?"
But there was one question that was the hardest: “Sir, why the hell are we risking our lives for this?"
Many Americans are asking a similar question: what does it mean to fight for a country that lets you down? A country whose leaders let you down? The answer today is the same as it was then: we’re fighting to uphold the values our leaders abandoned.
We’re fighting for who we are.
We’re fighting for who we are.
