This is Jaco podcast number nine with Echo Charles and me, Jaco Willink.

Perhaps I stabbed our Savior in his sacred helpless side, yet I've called his name

and blessing when in after times I died.

Through the travail of the ages, midst the pomp and toil of war, have I fought and strove

and perished countless times upon this star.

I have sinned and I have suffered, played the hero in the nave, fought for belly, shame

or country, and for each have found a grave.

So as through a glass and darkly, the age long strife I see, where I fought in many

guises, many names, but always me.

So forever in the future shall I battle as of your dying to be born a fighter, but to

die again once more.

And that is a poem by General George S. Patton.

And I've been thinking about the podcast and about the direction and about the things

and about what we talk about and what I talk about.

And I was actually have been looking for a non-military book, for a book that talks about

the same kind of things that I think about, but it's not about war, because there's a

very small population that are engaged in war, in real war.

So I've been looking for a book and I've got a bunch of books, a book that I enjoy and

books that I like, and I've been looking for a good book that is not a war book.

And I had some close ones, and maybe they'll make the cut.

But we're not there yet, because quite simply war is at another level.

It's not better, and it's not a good thing, and I don't worship war, but it is.

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