Amaryllis Fox

Amaryllis Fox Instagram – I spent years watching our government send my friends into a war that gained our country nothing. Some of them died. Some lost a limb. Many lost their mental health. Almost all lost the version of themselves they had been before they went.
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For a long time, when I visited treatment centers or spoke with surviving families, I grasped for some grand legacy. But as we withdrew from Iraq, leaving civilian casualty counts in the hundreds of thousands, I settled instead on acknowledging the truth: “Your baby was a hero, even if the choice to send them there was wrong.”
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One father told me that my honesty was more comfort than it should be. He said that real comfort would be an American President who thought twice before sending our children out to kill or be killed.
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Back then, I wasn’t sure that such a President would ever emerge. Today, I am.
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The media has had a lot to say about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., but I urge you to hear his vision in his own words. It has rekindled my hope for our country, as thousands more Americans join in his call for peaceful leadership every day.
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Last month, the Economist published the first poll showing RFK Jr leading both Trump and Biden nationwide. To me, this feels like a shared recognition that it is time for us to grow up as a country. Time to leave this season of binary thinking behind us. To recognize the human dignity of our neighbors and love one another back into community. Domestically and overseas.
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In Bobby’s tradition, I won’t ask you to take my word for it. But I will ask you to listen to this speech for yourself and think freely about the kind of America you want to leave behind you. To consider whether you dream of a country that spends more on war than on food stamps and education and housing combined. Whether you believe in free expression, believe in open discourse, believe in yourselves as valuable contributors to a living, thriving conversation about who we are as a nation, and who we want to become.
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You can find more of Bobby’s own words at the link in my profile.
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