Heinlein ping
Read it before, happy to read it again. I always do get a little teary eyed at the end.
My bottom line has been and probably will remain “Starship Troopers”. read it in the early 1960’s as “space rangers against the galaxy” and thoroughly enjoyed it. Read it less than a decade later as a political science text and wondered “Why not?” Went back to the same book 30 years later as a conceptual framework for USAF manning in 2030.
Same book.
Very interesting.
BTW the ultimate RAH book is “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long” - one of his quotes appeared on my retirement shadow box; “You can have peace or freedom. Don't ever expect both.”