STARRS held a Town Hall in April 2024 featuring Kendall Qualls of TakeCharge as the guest speaker. STARRS leaders and attendees also spoke. This is an edited version.
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.
When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people.
A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice—is often the means of their regeneration.
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
—John Stuart Mill, “The Contest in America,” Fraser’s Magazine, April 1862, available at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5123/pg5123.txt
Other referenced links:
MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
https://macarthursociety.org/
Articles about USAA:
https://starrs.us/?s=usaa
Comprehensive data base of CRT at colleges and universities including the academies
https://criticalrace.org/
Center for Military Readiness
https://www.cmrlink.org/
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