FREE BEACON
by Bill McMorris
February 19, 2015

This Navy SEAL who works to help veterans is entering politics. And he’s a Republican. If Eric Greitens sent you his résumé, you wouldn’t believe it. …“Very impressive resume, Mr. Greitens. A Navy SEAL and a Rhodes Scholar?….You’d hear how he spent his Duke University years tending to victims of poverty and genocide from Calcutta to Rwanda, that after Oxford he turned down his ticket to the One Percent to become a SEAL to live out his humanitarianism-through-strength dissertation thesis…He’d tell you that Fortune Magazine named him one of the 50 greatest leaders in the world, that Time Magazine said he’s one of the 100 most influential, that he’s only 40 years old. By the end of the conversation, you’d fly down to St. Louis to see if he’s lying when he says he’s a golden gloves champ, too. READ MORE

Eric Greitens, author of Resilience, will be in Chicago to speak at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on Monday, March 23 at 6pm CDT. For event and ticket ($10) information, click here.