Far Beyond the Superficial Politics of Patriotism Is the Lived Experience of Patriotism

By Alex Kingsbury

Feb. 16, 2020

Outside the headquarters of the Army’s 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum stands a monument to the unit, the one most frequently deployed in the years since the attacks of 9/11. Two wiry soldiers, frozen in bronze, help each other ascend a crag with the help of a rope. Etched around the monument is the unit’s motto: “Climb to Glory.”

I walked around the stone and bronze, in the frigid darkness of upstate New York, for a good 20 minutes last month, as my old friend Capt. Richard Murphy stood just out of earshot and spoke on his phone about his looming deployment to Afghanistan and about suicide.Read More https://newageislam.com/war-on-terror/alex-kingsbury/far-beyond-the-superficial-politics-of-patriotism-is-the-lived-experience-of-patriotism/d/121087