Someone to Sit in the Foxhole: A Grandfather’s Speech That Changed Everything

I told a room full of teenagers that I watched my best friend die in the mud just to see if they’d look up from their phones.

The room didn’t just go quiet. It went dead.

Thirty glowing screens lowered to the desks. The hum of the air conditioner suddenly sounded like a jet engine.

I’m seventy-six. My hearing is shot, my left hip is held together by titanium continue reading …