The fact that people (not just men) decide to put their lives on the line for their fellow citizens is something that should absolutely be lauded and sentimentalized, ESPECIALLY because doing so will very likely break them in some way.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
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The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
