And your post chokes me up. I have such great hopes for my kids. As we all do, I know.
My daughter just finished 8 years in the USAF and I am grateful she had a chance to serve even if it was under mostly a communist. I wish I didn’t have to apologize to her as often as I do for bringing her into a world with so many cowards in it.
For some reason we collectively sought to slit our own throats and we found a way. I wish it were not so.