138 quotes found
“All my life my dad felt this need to protect his kids from a war he fought, a war I believed could never reach out and touch us, could never hurt usand yet he fed us lies with his answers, shieldin...”
“A son for a flag is a lot of sacrifice.”
“I have this thought, its horrible, and it makes me sick, but its true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and theyre going to name them for men and women who will die in t...”
“This is my worst fear. Its not keeping my students safe from terrorists, its knowing what to do when the Chaplain comes to take Johnny out of class because not letting the terrorists win means some...”
“The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.”
“I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.”
“Teaching isnt rocket science. Its about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you dont need to talk a lot to teach well. You do need to care, though. Not so much ...”
“The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interes...”
“I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares, my dad who was a good man, the best man Id ever known, who, along with my uncle, ...”
“Military life is hard, even cruelespecially for the kids.”
“We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. Its how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that wont let us move forward.”
“Im in my classroom and Im looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in front of The Wall, telling the truth, finallyhis knees drawn and his chest heavingand when people pass ...”
“The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the least, but as a group we were among the most talented, diverse, intelligent, fun, crazy, thou...”
“Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college Id taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and Strategies. I thought about emailing my professor, maybe suggest some ne...”
“Its hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people whove never lived overseas, but when youre an American living in a geographically separated region within a country like Korea, you form ...”
“If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.”
“I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one last hand joined the pile: my Korean aide. I guess it made sense. We were her real...”
“This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.”
“I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their students would be drafted and sent to war. I was curious because for sur...”
“Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl Id found on the staircase nearly a year earlier; to the past, when teaching was simpler and I could care about everyday proble...”
