That’s the thing about adventures — they’re never vacations, but almost always include heaping helpings of drama, sweat, sometimes a bit of blood, and a few gallons of tears…and they often turn out to be the times we most treasure in our lives, the ones where we learned the most, and the ones who made us who we are.

There’s a couple hundred million of our fellow Americans who I wish could learn the lesson about humanity you described so well here.