About the Author

RYE BARCOTT is a Marine Corps veteran, social entrepreneur, and author of It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace. He is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization that fights polarization by supporting principled veteran leadership in public office. While serving in the Marines, Barcott co-founded CFK Africa, a locally led youth leadership and public health organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College.

Other Writing by Rye

The wall street journal

Five Best Books on Everyday Heroes

IDAHO STATE JOURNAL

Rye Barcott Op-Ed Tribute to his friend the late Governor Dirk Kempthorne: “Godspeed, Governor”

CFK Africa

Thank you, Mama Jackie

Harvard University Center for Public Leadership

Five Pieces of Advice from David Gergen

CFK Africa

What We Learned from Our Friend Madeleine Albright

USA TODAY

Sen. John Warner’s Foxhole Doctrine: Democrat or Republican, we’re all fellow soldiers

USA TODAY

With Mary Tobin on Growing AmeriCorps

FORBES

Expand JROTC with Reps Mikie Sherrill and Mike Gallagher, and retired Marine Michael Dubrule

THE WASHINGTON POST

All Americans have a duty to honor Memorial Day