An over-reliance on state-sanctioned violence is unhealthy for America
As a veteran I am particularly frustrated that we depend too much on police and military to solve our foreign and domestic crises.
Thomas “Buddy” Bardenwerper served for five years in the U.S. Coast Guard aboard cutters homeported in Maine and Puerto Rico. Thanks to the GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program, Bardenwerper is in his final year of Harvard’s joint-JD/MPP program. His novel “Mona Passage” was published in 2021 by Syracuse University Press through the inaugural Veterans Writing Award.
As a veteran I am particularly frustrated that we depend too much on police and military to solve our foreign and domestic crises.