Not Sending Our Best

Henry Hoeft is just your normal Ohioan looking to leave his son and job to fight as a mercenary in a war halfway across the world. Or so The Columbus Dispatch would make you think.

28-year-old Ohio and combat veteran Henry Hoeft.

Once upon a time, I was enlisted as a paratrooper in the United States Army, and thankfully I was smart enough to eventually understand that getting some stretch of highway named after me wouldn’t do much to console my parents after my inevitable death.

I don’t understand the urge of fighting somebody else’…