The average age of an American serviceman killed in Vietnam was 23 years old. In Iraq, it was 27. The average American lives to be about 80. The data for other conflicts […]
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Sean Patrick Hughes
Founder, writer, veteran, special needs parent
The Blank Check
“A veteran is someone who wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including their life.” That’s an unattributed quote that gets […]
An Open Apology to the Confederacy
I’d like to take a moment to apologize for something I did a few days ago. It was a foolish thing. I was rash. And I did something wrong. I went ahead […]
The Good and Strong: To the Class of ’17 from my Alma Mater
It’s all going to be over soon. You’ll be out on that clean, green field with the sun bearing down on you, bathing those crisp white uniforms in a blinding glare. You’ll […]
The Consequences of Democracy
“This is political Jihad perpetrated by the Democrats.” James Woods of 80’s movie character actor fame and more recent but less entertaining conservative tweet fame tweeted. He’s right. Though, I’ve been through […]
Settling for Different
In a little less than six weeks this past winter, the Republic of Korea, South Korea as we say it here in the States, impeached their president and arrested the CEO of […]
The Doomed American Healthcare Debate
It’s about as clean a political debate as you’re going to find. When you break it down as simply as you can, the healthcare fight is drawn up so tightly that it […]
