"To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes."

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“The murder-suicide combination of school and other mass shootings is largely young white boys’ way of driving off the cliff at the end of mental health’s tortuous road.”

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“If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.”

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