The hell of some ‘new normals’
Quote of the day comes from "Gold Star Father," a one-time Marine whose son became a Marine and was killed in action, made this comment the other day: " We all have’‘new normals’ as recently discussed in TBD, but some new normals are absolute hell." Yes, I know that those aren’t Marines in the photo. I ...
Quote of the day comes from "Gold Star Father," a one-time Marine whose son became a Marine and was killed in action, made this comment the other day: " We all have'‘new normals' as recently discussed in TBD, but some new normals are absolute hell."
Quote of the day comes from "Gold Star Father," a one-time Marine whose son became a Marine and was killed in action, made this comment the other day: " We all have’‘new normals’ as recently discussed in TBD, but some new normals are absolute hell."
Yes, I know that those aren’t Marines in the photo. I chose it because this is about more than his own experience, as he says "we all."
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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