'A different command': how George HW Bush's war shaped his work for peace

Before he was president, Bush was a young naval flier who survived being shot down. The experience stayed with him for life

In 1942, at George Bush’s wartime graduation from his preparatory school, the speaker was Henry Stimson, the secretary of war. Stimson urged the graduates to enroll in college, to give them the skills to become officers. After the speech, Bush’s father asked if anything Stimson said had made him change his mind.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QbfhAX

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