In the early 1960s, at a time when many young people were being radicalized by the Vietnam War, Wright left college and volunteered to join the United States Marine Corps. After three years as a marine, he chose to serve three more as a naval medical technician, during which time he received several White House commendations. He came to Chicago to study not long after Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder in 1968, the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia in 1969, and the shooting of students at Kent State University in 1970.-Martin E. Marty, of the Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review, stepping up to the plate for Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
...Friendship develops through many gestures and shared delights (in [my] case, stops for sinfully rich barbecue after evening services), and people across the economic spectrum can attest to the generosity of the Wright family...
Those who were part of his ministry for years — school superintendents, nurses, legislators, teachers, laborers, the unemployed, the previously shunned and shamed, the anxious — are not going to turn their backs on their pastor and prophet.
(Muchos gracias: Christina)
