He fought his way through the entire, all of World War II from North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day on the South Coast of France. His combat infantry, Lieutenant and a captain wrote just a ghastly number of letters to parents. He lost his entire platoon over and over again because they just kept getting chewed up. But he wasn't incapacitated, right? He was the mayor of Kenosha and he ran a bank.
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others. His studies of communal connection include soldiers in a small combat unit and American Indian society in the nineteenth century.