Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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He did this thing that was totally extraordinary as an example of that kind of intellectual courage of espousing a national identity.
And it doesn't mean you're without criticism of your country at all, but...
is do you have a duty to it?
What do you have a duty to, right?
You have to articulate what your duty to your country is, or you will die an unhappy person, right, in my opinion.
So what this guy, I was outside of a hotel in Norfolk, Virginia, and this guy came out and he was in a wheelchair.
He's a sort of very handsome 75-year-old guy, right?
And his right leg ended at the knee, and it was swaddled in bandages, like he had just lost half of his right leg.
at age 75 and he came out on his own and he tried to get into a car that happened to be in the passenger seat and it was locked.
So I went over to him.
I was like, hey, can I help you?
And he was like, no, I just have to wait till my wife gets here.
And I said, it seems pretty complicated what you're dealing with.
He was like, well, it takes some getting used to.
It'll be all right.
And so I tried again.
I was like, you seem really brave about it.
And he said, he said, there's people in this country missing both their, there's young people in this country missing both their legs.
This was during the war on terror.
He said, there's young people in this country missing both their legs.
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