This book really got me thinking.

I think the book can best be summed up by the following quote:

"I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I will not pass this way again."

This is an excellent book about our call to service and how we choose to answer the call. I'm so impressed with the journey this author decided to take. The book is his story about how, as an undergraduate at Duke University who majored in Public Affairs, he chose to volunteer and the various countries this brought him to. Then it follows him to Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and of his travels there. Then, it follows him as he debates his next call to service and really backing up what he feels should be done, which is serving in the military. The book chronicles the training the Navy SEALs go through and the rigor and sheer discipline requires to overcome it. The books ends with his active duty service in the SEALs and various countries he visited. His opinion/viewpoint about our military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq is very interesting to me. He has started a wonderful foundation for injured veterans, allowing them to give back to their communities and find meaning in their lives.

If you like books about public service - I recommend it!