Trumped up wars don't produce heroes. They kill heroes.
The Patricks lost here would have been heroes many times over had they been able to serve family, country, and an increasingly complex world in some other way.
Wars should not be the primary way that millions of Americans serve in what will continue to become an increasingly complicated, stressed, and depressed world. The tragedies and losses endured by Gold Star moms should drive citizens to demand a public policy shift that turns us away from serving the engines of war and destruction to spreading the work of peace and development.
More Americans should push Congress to enact legislation that would give life to Nadia McCaffrey's words, "Patrick would be alive today if he had known (and if it had existed) of the American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals (AWSC). Helping people, especially children, is what he loved to do."
We have lost enough heroes in their primes. It's time we gave them a robust American World Service Corps banner under which their heroism would grow through time. See the Patrick Tillman Story and see if you don't agree we need another way to serve heroically.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
