
Sen. Duckworth on her family and military service
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How Did Your Childhood Shape Your Communication?
When you look around and and you see other kids who look like you, who are living on the streets as beggars. You internalize a lot of that. It really shaped me when i started campaigning for the sen because that is when i started to come across folks who were in the same situation i was in in my teens. So that my dad lost his job, and they're unemployed now, just as my dad was. And i started to talk to people about hunger. I worked on hunger issues when i was in the house, but i didn't really talk about the fact that i had been on food stamps as ivery much. But it wasn't until i started representing the
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