Emily!’s Reviews > God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood > Status Update

“Real love wasn’t possible in a place like this, and so power filled the vacuum.”

“It’s designed to break you down and build you back up. Well, I was built already. I didn’t need to be broken down. I didn’t want to be formed and molded in your image. I was an adult. I was raised by a decent family. I knew what I felt was right and wrong, and I knew what my goals and aspirations were, so I wasn’t looking for that. But that’s the design.”

some of these stories from the military academies are just so horrific and i had no fucking idea (and think most people probably have no fucking idea!)