Military Genes
Commentary
Parents have been known to encourage, guide, direct, and even threaten their children when making a career choice.
Suppose you knew that for the next twenty years, your child would be sleeping on the ground in either snow, rain, or extreme heat, possibly among poisonous, wild creatures or other humans longing to take away their life; can that make you want to encourage them to go for it?
If you knew your child would often be hungry, sleep-deprived, sick or hurt, physically exhausted, and near the point of collapse; would you guide them to make that a life calling?
Knowing it may be years before you see that precious child again or even knowing whether they were alive or not, would you remind them of the heroic deeds their grandfather, father, or other relative had done in choosing this career?…