Making sure the inherent needs of others are met before our own is what we should strive to do, especially when it comes to our own children.

MONTREAL – There’s been a lot of attention lately on one of the world’s bigmouths and his vision for space flight. It might be more profitable to listen to the thinking of one of the quiet men who knew, from hard-won experience, about travel in space, the meaning of such voyages and the lessons we on Earth might learn from them.

At a town hall meeting in the Pentagon last February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “I think the single dumbest phrase in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength.’” Talk about dumb. Many former officers, who are now free to speak out, argue that Hegseth’s Holy War against diversity in the military is profoundly self-destructive. In the name of bolstering our nation’s defenses, he’s making them weaker, not stronger.

Recently I saw Congressman Frank Lucas in an interview with Oklahoma City television station KWTV. The topic was Fort Reno.