Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Service and sacrifice seem to mean less today

Regarding Joel Rector’s fine Monday letter to the editor, “Politicians leading by example? Don’t hold your breath”:

He stated accurately and succinctly what all citizens should be saying to the Washington, D.C., crowd. Leadership by example is one of the finest forms of leading, and our representatives and the White House either never learned this or have long since forgotten.

I have been on this Earth for 80 years and have learned (maybe the hard way), through many years of military service along with my “band of brothers,” what service means, including the salient concepts of leadership — sacrifice and setting an example. The old cavalry officers had it right: “First my horses, then my men and then me.”

Current political leadership is very heavy on the aspects of “me” and light on “setting an example and sacrifice.”

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