Wes Moore joined the US Army to pay for college, but the experience became core to who he is. In this heartfelt talk, the the paratrooper and captain—who went on to write "The Other Wes Moore"—...
========== I'm excited to be here to speak about vets,because I didn't join the Armybecause I wanted to go to war.I didn't join the Army because I had a lustor a need to go overseas and fight.Frankly, I joined the Army becausecollege is really damn expensive,and they were going to help with that,and I joined the Army becauseit was what I knew,and it was what I knew that I thought I could do well.I didn't come from a military family.I'm not a military brat.No one in my family ever
had joined the military at all,and how I first got introduced to the militarywas when I was 13 years oldand I got sent away to military school,because my mother had been threatening mewith this idea of military school
ever since I was eight years old.I had s...
