I am pinging a few of my friends to make sure they read it.
Thank you for the article and the ping.
This may be the best short article I've ever to treat this subject. Great writing.
I WILL be saving it, sending it, printing it, and distributing it. My 8yo daughter will be reading it - more than once, and we'll try to get it incorporated into the school sometime in the future. (A bit more latitude in these things - parochial school)
Several times during the last 15 or so years, I have noted the rising career of General Myers. He keeps striking me as being one of the best military commanders in my lifetime. I want to note that is a experienced evaluation. I was privileged to fly with over fifty SAC general officers, and a similar number of full birds - so I've seen a few types.
I had a wing commander who was quite similar to Myers, and to the commander who played a lead role in this piece. He had such interest and compassion for his men - for ME! - that I just know that if we had been on a smoking battlefield and he said, "take that hill", I would strive to do it. Not because he would force me, or that he had duped me, but because he had led me and inspired my loyalty from the first days I joined the wing. Myers has always struck me this way, and the piece confirms it.
I'm not trying to take away from any other officers - there are many, many more commanders like this in our fine military. Mine is a testimonial that this is not a fake piece, or a unique experience of this reporter, or something just put on by a commander under scrutiny.
God Bless them, and all our troops. I salute them all, and pray for them and their families.
I cannot think of a better read at this time.
God Bless these fine men!