We should all be so lucky as to meet someone so committed to learning, bettering himself, and doing right by others as Eric Greitens as described in his auto-biography, "The Heart and the Fist." He begins his particular journey assisting refugees and the poor through a series of internships / summer job-type endeavors in various Third World nations. He discovers, however, that he and his fellow aid-workers are arriving *after* the crisis that created the refugees. Perhaps after his exposure to boxing in college, he connects the dots and realizes that in order to protect people from becoming refugees or otherwise victims of violence, one needs to be prepared to use their fists - to fight. On that basis he attempts to join a very small and unique brotherhood -the US Navy SEAL's. He illustrates in those chapters how the skills he developed in working with and aiding the downtrodden better enabled him to make allies in the third-world nations in which he was stationed while on active duty.

To bring it all full circle, when he left the Navy, he established an organization that sponsors wounded/disabled veterans learning to help others - The Mission Continues. It gives the veterans important work, keeping them from feeling unwanted / useless after their often-life-changing injuries.

This book is well worth your time to read.