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[wants to rise in leadership should GOP regain house?]

He’s like a lot of other veterans, whether Vietnam or Korea - they want their sacrifices to mean something. When you lose a limb or other organ while building a house, and the house falls down, it seems like a waste. In Crenshaw’s case, he lost an eye and a number of literal comrades-in-arms, cold stone dead.

Back in the era of warriors, when men fought to take, by force, women, slaves, loot and land, and killed anyone of any age or gender who got in their way, people who fought wars were unsentimental about having their sacrifices mean something, as long as they got their material rewards. But the American soldier, who is above average in every way, yet gets paid less than his civilian counterpart, fights mainly for honor and sentiment, given the piddling material rewards on offer. Like a lot of his comrades, he is a Crusader, stripped of the religious aspect - he wants to bring the light of freedom to the benighted heathens.