“I sent them away boys and they came back men. And what the difference was — and I think this where military service is so extraordinary too — is where you literally do something where you’re helping someone else. You’re going outside of yourself and you’re working and helping others. And that changes you,” she said.
I'm sorry.. I'm all about them being missionaries and all, but to compare with serving in a war as being the same thing? as being 'man-building'?
that's gotta be insulting to people who actually did go to war at 18 and came back at 19 more 'grown-up' than they had any right to be..
I'm thinking about how insulting it is to the families of those who never came home.
