It’s NFL Draft week, so I’m going to bookend the event with two columns about football and the military. Here's the first.
West Point grad Douglas MacArthur once said, “On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”
New cadets memorize those words during the first few weeks of Cadet Basic Training. In layman’s terms, the lessons learned in athletic competition will likely lead to winning more battles in real wars.
This week’s column is about Patriots long snapper Joe Cardona.