Matt Pottinger Joins the Marines
A 32-year-old former Wall Street Journal reporter has joined the U.S. Marines.
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In China he was arrested for writing about corruption. “I was standing over a toilet,” he told ABC News recently, “with a bunch of Chinese policemen standing around me shredding my notebook, page by page, and flushing it down a toilet.” Freedom took on new meaning for him.
“I would come home, and you didn’t feel coming home to the United States from abroad that we were a country at war,” he said. “I was surprised by that … and that disturbed me. It gave me a sense that we were being a little bit too complacent.”
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