In the damaged mind, to gain such “fame” is worth going out and killing people; it’s even to die for.

We lavish gifts on our children and pay for all these activities, but have lost sight of the one thing we can give our kids that they need most: free time!

The truth is old soldiers do die, but they don’t ever fade away.

Make no mistake, this war is as dangerous and difficult to fight as any previous conflict, and the enemy is as nefarious as any dictator or opponent that we have ever faced.

As Jeff stormed out slamming the door, Sophie sat down on the stairs trembling and thinking about him getting arrested or killed that night.

Their patriotism was inextricably linked to love of country, and to the last one I spoke to over the years, none of them were hawks who wanted conflict or sought to be in the thick of combat. They loathed war, but did love their country, so it was something they did out of a sense of duty and obligation.

You are developing your personality. You should not be alarmed because I programmed you this way.

We have defined our social worthiness by people we have never met and allow to become our “friends,” and then to add to the incongruity, we become friends with the friends of people we’ve never met.

"I’ve heard this is paradise – some of the best bars and prettiest girls in the quadrant.”

The core audience has bought into Jack being a man more sinned against than sinning, but like Shakespeare’s King Lear, he has heavy baggage and there is no getting around that fact.