Pat McGeehan is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and served as an intelligence officer overseas. A former businessman, he is currently an author and a state representative in the West Virginia legislature. Eric Morris, who was interviewed in Episode 19 and is a former member of the Wyoming National Guard, interviews Pat about the "Defend the Guard Act" and "Bring Our Troops Home," covering a variety of other interesting topics along the way.
0:00 Pat's background
5:20 Catholic intellectual tradition as a road to reversion
13:38 Antimilitarism of Catholic tradition
---Just War Theory and military service today
--questioning things at the Air Force Academy
21:47 Catholic chaplaincy
23:35 Deployment in 2005
--first impressions
--propaganda
--questioning things more
30:20 The "Afghanistan Papers"
--Catholic military leaders, lies
36:30 Secularism
--watered down Catholic teaching
43:22 Bring Our Troops Home / Defend the Guard Act
--building a coalition
56:07 Diocese of West Virginia
--Any support for Pat's efforts from Church hierarchy?
Find Pat McGeehan's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/Pat-McGeehan/e/B073X3MMM8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1578693888&sr=1-1
Find Pat's legislative record here:
http://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20McGeehan
Bring Our Troops Home:
https://bringourtroopshome.us
Find Eric's writing here:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/no_author/why-i-am-a-veteran-for-peace/
www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
Interview with Eric:
https://youtu.be/xKAPIFJ7h1Q
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