Seat at the Table: Including our Veterans to Rebuild Civil Society
Seat at the Table: Including our Veterans to Rebuild Civil Society D.R. Scott DuLac Advisory When I was 9 years old, my Grandfather showed me a pocket-watch photo of his Great Grandfather in Union Blues, during America’s Civil War. Born in the days of race-based enslavement, I looked proudly at this time portal to my ancestor who left all he knew to help make other men free. Just think, when he joined the Army, America did not have the 13 th , 14 th , or 15 th Amendments. It was thus constitutional to traffic human beings, force them into inherited work contracts, assault or kill them for alleged disobedience, and claim them as 3/5ths proportional representation for Congress. We are forever indebted to those who risked their lives in that terrible war to help make others free, and propel America closer to its original hope: to be a bastion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people . On Veteran’s Day, we pause to salute...