Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. My guest started out as an enlisted Marine infantryman and served more than 26 years in the Marine Corps, the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army, including tours at the Pentagon and on the Joint Staff. In 2004 he volunteered for Operation Iraqi Freedom and went to Baghdad to manage the project that built Iraq’s 911 system.
In January 2005 an enemy rocket hit him in the head. He walked away, earned the Purple Heart, recovered at Walter Reed, and went back to finish his career. Then he kept serving, as a teacher, an interim principal and editor of Purple Heart Magazine. His memoir, Decisions: A Middle-Class Memoir, with a foreword by our friend Colonel Kurt Schlichter, is about the choices we make after life knocks us down. Tomorrow is Election Day, and that is a decision too. Every Republican needs to vote tomorrow and keep a Republican Congress behind President Trump’s agenda. We value your privacy
